"Which way now?" asked Chester.
"As straight toward the front as we can go," was the reply. "We'll have to trust to luck to get through."
They made off with all speed.
And suddenly, from the direction in which they had come, there came a loud cry, followed by several pistol shots and the sound of footsteps running after them.
"They have discovered our escape!" shouted Colonel Anderson. "Run."
He suited the action to the word and Chester ran after him.
"We'd better double back and try to throw them off our track," called the colonel over his shoulder.
He swerved to the right, ran a few rods, and turned to the right again.
And then, abruptly, he came to a pause. Chester, a step behind, crashed into him. He stumbled, and uttered an exclamation of dismay, as he heard Colonel Anderson say:
"We surrender!"