Well? asked the young men, coming up out of breath, and unable to understand the meaning of his inaction.
Well, I cannot hear the dogs; they and the fox must be all engulfed in this cavern.
They were too close up, said one of the guards, to have lost scent all at once; besides, we should hear them from one side or another. They must, as Biscarrat says, be in this grotto.
But then, said one of the young men, why dont they give tongue?
It is strange! said another.
Well, but, said a fourth, let us go into this grotto. Is it forbidden that we should enter it?
No, replied Biscarrat; only, as it looks as dark as a wolfs mouth, we might break our necks in it.
Witness the dogs, said a guard, who seem to have broken theirs.
What the devil can have become of them? asked the young men
