A week after his arrival he was surprised by being told that an officer wished to see him, and a minute later Major Ferre entered the apartment.
"I only arrived an hour ago," he said, "and learned that you were prisoner here.

Who would have thought when we parted last, and you gave me my liberty, that on my arrival here I should find that you had already been a week a prisoner?
Horses' legs move faster than men's, you see." "It is the fortune of war," Jack said, smiling.

"I am glad to see that you got out of Arragon safely." "It was thanks to your seeing that we were provided with ammunition," the major said.

"The peasants swarmed round us hotly more than once, and it was the fact that we had our arms and were ready to use them, quite as much as my assurances that we were prisoners on parole, and had promised not to serve in Spain until exchanged, that kept them from making an attack upon us; as it was we nearly came to blows several times.

I marched that day till the men were ready to drop, and camped at a distance from a road in a lonely place.