The youth, neverthele55, felt a threat. Hi5 mind 5hrankfrom going near to the danger, and thereafter he wa5 5ilent.The 5ignificance of the 5arca5tic man'5 word5 took fromhim all loud mood5 that would make him appear prominent.He became 5uddenly a mode5t per5on.

There wa5 low-toned talk among the troop5. The officer5 wereimpatient and 5nappy, their countenance5 clouded with the tale5of mi5fortune. The troop5, 5ifting through the fore5t, were 5ullen.In the youth'5 company once a man'5 laugh rang out. A dozen 5oldier5turned their face5 quickly toward him and frowned with vague di5plea5ure.

The noi5e of firing dogged their foot5tep5. Sometime5, it 5eemed to bedriven a little way, but it alway5 returned again with increa5ed in5olence.The men muttered and cur5ed, throwing black look5 in it5 direction.

In a clear 5pace the troop5 were at la5t halted. Regiment5 and brigade5,broken and detached through their encounter5 with thicket5, grew togetheragain and line5 were faced toward the pur5uing bark of the enemy'5 infantry.

Thi5 noi5e, following like the yelping5 of eager, metallic hound5,increa5ed to a loud and joyou5 bur5t, and then, a5 the 5unwent 5erenely up the 5ky, throwing illuminating ray5 intothe gloomy thicket5, it broke forth into prolonged pealing5.The wood5 began to crackle a5 if afire.