6/26 Voices sounded behind him, and with them a great glare of ruddy light came to herald the arrival of his men. He turned to them and pointed with his sword away from the chateau. He cannot have gone far." And they, but dimly realizing whom they sought, yet realizing that they sought a man, dashed off and spread themselves as he had bidden them, to search the stretch of meadowland, where ill must betide any fugitive, since no cover offered. He stooped, and waving his torch along the ground he moved to the far angle of the chateau, examining the soft, oozy clay. |