We are prisoners here for an hour or two.

Well, it is perhaps better to have them behind than before us." "What will happen when they find the bodies of the two troopers ?" "That is precisely the question I am asking myself.

But not having met us they will naturally conclude that we have gone on toward Caracas." "Unless they are differently informed by the man who escaped us." "I don't think he would be in any hurry to turn back.

He went off at a devil of a pace." "He might turn back for all that, when he recovered from his scare.

He could not help seeing that we were only two, and if he informs the others they will know of a surety that we are hiding in the ravine." "And then there would be a hunt.