Excerpt: ...at the gallop," said Leon at the same moment; and, listening, I heard the muffled thunder of hoofs upon the snow. "Would they be our own men?" I asked him. He shook his head. "We must be five leagues from the high road. Which of our fellows would come this way?" I could not answer that, and had no need to, for hardly were the words spoken when a troop of Cossacks appeared at a gallop, and instantly the wolves closed in about them. This was a fine sight, and one I never shall forget. To watch those dashing ...
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Excerpt: ...at the gallop," said Leon at the same moment; and, listening, I heard the muffled thunder of hoofs upon the snow. "Would they be our own men?" I asked him. He shook his head. "We must be five leagues from the high road. Which of our fellows would come this way?" I could not answer that, and had no need to, for hardly were the words spoken when a troop of Cossacks appeared at a gallop, and instantly the wolves closed in about them. This was a fine sight, and one I never shall forget. To watch those dashing horsemen hewing and firing and slashing at the pack about them, to wonder why they thus rode desperately, to speculate upon their destination, were all in the mind's task as the picture unfolded. Were we the pursued, or had they other quarry? Certainly they would not have to look far for us, for there in their track upon the snow lay our saddles and bridles, at which the famished brutes still gnawed. Now, it occurred to me that they must certainly discover us, and that our shrift would be short. The beasts themselves, scared by the thunder of the sounds, broke presently and fled to the woods whence they had come. The Cossacks rode up to the very place where our bridles lay, and yet they did not halt. What drove them thence? I will tell you in a word
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