The leader, with a quick movement of his rein, threw his horse
out in front, and pointed first to the sun, now close down on the
hill tops, and then to the castle, said something which I did not
understand. For answer, all four men of our party threw themselves
from their horses and dashed towards the cart. I should have felt
terrible fear at seeing Jonathan in such danger, but that the ardor
of battle must have been upon me as well as the rest of them. I
felt no fear, but only a wild, surging desire to do something.
Seeing the quick movement of our parties, the leader of the gypsies
gave a command. His men instantly formed round the cart in a sort
of undisciplined endeavor, each one shouldering and pushing the
other in his eagerness to carry out the order.
In the midst of this
