Chapter FourAfterwards Giona was to realise that she acted instantaneously by sheer instinct rather than by making any conscious decision.
With hardly a pause she walked down the steps towards the sentries and, when she was within a few feet of them, she stopped and said,
“I think there was a movement in those bushes. I am sure I saw somebody there.”
She pointed as she spoke to a clump of bushes about twenty yards away by the railside.
As she anticipated, the sentries hurried forward and as they did so she was certain without turning her head that somebody slipped up the steps and into her coach.
She was just about to turn and go back, when running from the end of the train came a number of soldiers led by an Officer.
They were carrying fixed bayonets and the Officer, holding a pisto
