Renwick's eyes were good and they searched the valley below him
ceaselessly. He thought he heard a rumble as of thunder in the distance,
but as the sky was clear he knew that he must have been mistaken, but
after a while along the road below him more soldiers passed, riding
rapidly and silently--into the deeper shadows of the gorge. Their
clattering wagons followed, and this, Renwick decided, was the cause of
the distant sound that he had heard. Once or twice he thought that he
saw motion among the undergrowth at some distance below him, but decided
that he had been mistaken. Again--nearer and to his right. There was no
doubt of it now. Renwick crawled deeper into his place of concealment
and peered out.

Some one was climbing up over the rocks below him, mounting slowly a
little farther up the gorge. He heard the crackling of twigs and the
sound of voices in a subdued murmur. There were two of them. Venturing
his head beyond the leaves he got a glimpse through the trunks of the
pine-trees--a tall man and a shorter, stouter one. They were more than a
hundred yards away and moving up the mountain side away from him, but to
Renwick's mind, fixed only upon the men he sought and those who sought
himself, the figures, though wearing rough clothing like his own, seemed
strangely like those of Herr Windt and Spivak. Of course he might have
been mistaken, for within two miles of this spot at least two hundred
people lived, but the profusion of game in the valley confirmed the
report of his host of last night that the peasants who lived in the
vicinity of Dukla were not in the habit of venturing into the Pass. And
if not peasants and not the men he had imagined them to be, who were
they and what were they doing here? He lay quietly, listening for the
sound of their footsteps which seemed to pass toward the castle above
him and at last died away in the distance.

Windt here? It seemed incredible that he had traced Renwick so quickly.
Or was it as Herr Koulos had said, that the same sources of information
which had been open to Renwick had been open to Herr Windt also? Was he
seeking Goritz or Renwick or both, trusting to the relations between
Renwick and Marishka to bring all trails to this converging point? If
the strangers among the rocks above him were Windt and Spivak, he was
indeed in danger of detection and capture, and the fate of an Englishman
taken armed in a region where Austrian troops were massing was
unpleasant to