Noise coming from the town interrupted further conversation. After a time an officer whom they knew passed quickly near them.
“Stop!” cried Volodyovski; “what is the matter?”
“There is a fire to be seen from the walls. Shchebjeshyn is burning! The Swedes are there!”
“Let us go on the walls,” said Pan Yan.
“Go; but I will sleep, since I need my strength for to-morrow,” answered Zagloba.
CHAPTER XXIX.
That night Volodyovski went on a scouting expedition, and about morning returned with a number of informants. These men asserted that the King of Sweden was at Shchebjeshyn in person, and would soon be at Zamost.
Zamoyski was rejoiced at the news, for he hurried around greatly, and had a genuine desire to try his walls and guns on the Swedes. He considered, and very justly, that even if
