As he approached, Leon came out to meet him, and shook him warmly by the hand.
"I have been feeling very anxious about you," he said.

"We got through yesterday unquestioned, but the officer at the gate today might have been a more particular sort of fellow, and might have taken it into his head to question any of those who came out.

The others all went on at once, but we will keep quiet until nightfall.
I left my horse here when I came in; which I could do safely, for the farm belongs to me, and the farmer has been our tenant for the last thirty years.

There is a horse for you here, also.
"I have got the latest intelligence as to where the French are lying.

They have a strong force at Tordesillas; but this won't matter to us, for I got a message from Moras, yesterday, saying that the hills are now all covered with snow, and that the whole force would march, today, for their old quarters in the valley near Miranda.