Hal turned for a moment, to deliver a parting injunction to those in the trees:
"Don't any of you so much as move until I tell you to."
"And where are we bound?" asked Chester, as the three moved off.
"Apparently," said Hal, "we are Bulgarian officers. The bluff may work. I want to tell all inquiring parties that we have just explored these woods. Catch the idea?"
Chester and Ivan nodded.
CHAPTER XXIX.
MR. STUBBS PROVES HIMSELF.
"We'll stay in among the trees and won't show ourselves unless we have to," Hal explained.
From the direction in which the fugitives had so recently come, there now came the noise of a rapidly approaching body of horsemen. They halted a short distance from where Hal, Chester and Ivan stood and dismounted.
"They may be hiding in here," said a voice. "We'll have a look."