Even in the dusk of twilight there was something familiar about
that stride. Presently the man lifted up his voice in song. The
"second lead," as they say back of the scenes, was about to appear
before the audience.
Evidently Hillars had found "Jericho" distasteful and had returned to
protest.
CHAPTER XI
"Hello, there!" he hailed, seeing but not recognizing me; "have you
seen any cavalry pass this way?"
"No, I have not," I answered in English.
"Eh? What's that?" not quite believing it was English he had heard.
"I said that no cavalry has passed this way since this afternoon. Are
they looking for you, you jail-bird in perspective?"
He was near enough now. "Well, I be dam'!" he cried. "What the devil
are you doing here, of all places?"
"I was looking for you," said I, locking my arm in his.
"Everybody has been making that their occupation since I left Austria,"
cursing lowly. "I never saw such people."
"What have you been doing this time?"
"Nothing; but I want to do something right away. They have been
hounding me all over the kingdom. What have I done? Nothing,
absolutely nothing.
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