As we watched we knew that all in the cottage must be dead.

What could we do?
At last James started off in the hope of getting help.

He found a party of charcoal-burners, and they came with him.
The flames were burnt down now; and we and they approached the charred ruins.

Everything was in ashes.

But"-- he lowered his voice--"we found what seemed to be the body of Boris the hound; in another room was a charred corpse, whose hunting-horn, melted to a molten mass, told us that it had been Herbert the forester.