"How am I to know anything if you all run away and leave me? What's happened?"
"What's happened! Why, Speckbacher has taken Halle!"
"No!—"
"—Has, though—That's one thing. When you've given over disbelieving that, I'll tell you something else."
"Well, say thy say, tiresome boy."
"Hofer's in Innsbruck!"
"The Sandwirth? What, prisoner?"
"Prisoner! No, mother, quite the other way. We've turned out the Bavarians!"
"What, out of Innsbruck?"
"Aye, out of Innsbruck. Twenty thousand of us got together on the heights about the city—"