«According to command.»
There was a movement; the little division under Yuzva the Footless went forward at a trot to the swamp. A number of tens of Butryms who had been sent for other nobles now came up.
«Are the Gostsyeviches to be seen?» asked Volodyovski.
«Yes, Colonel. Praise be to God!» cried the newly arrived. «The Gostsyeviches are coming; they can be heard through the woods. You know that they carried her to Lyubich?»
«I know. He will not go far with her.»
There was indeed one danger to his insolent venture on which Kmita had not reckoned; he knew not that a considerable force of the nobles had just returned home. He judged that the villages were as empty as at the time of his first stay in Lyubich; while on the present occasion counting the Gostsyeviches, without the Stakyans
