We're hungry, starving, naked.

Do you hear?
We were hiding in the woods hard by to-day.
There was a wagon-train.

A regiment of Cossacks surprised it, killed its defenders, brought it here.

We saw it all." "And where are the Cossacks gone ?" asked the young man, coolly picking up his pistol from the floor and nonchalantly sitting upon the nearest table in a careless way which certainly belied the beating of his heart.

He took careful notice of the men.