It was incredible that they could travel thus great distances through Austria, the land of the enemy.

He knew that chance had a way of finding a balance, and violent and fierce events might be before them.
But as he drove on he scanned the heavens now and then with a questing eye.

It had not occurred to him until Weber spoke that all of them might escape through the air.

Lannes would trail them, not on the earth, but through mists and clouds.

He would come, too, with friends almost as daring and skillful as himself, perhaps with Caumartin and the two, Castelneau and Mery, who had responded to the thrilling signal near Salzburg, when he took his first flight.