"Your grace!" finally said the Bohemian. "Our search is in vain, for the young lady of Spychow was not in the train."
"To the road!" replied Zbyszko.
"We shall not find her there either. I looked well in the sleighs for any baskets containing ladies' finery, but I discovered none. The young lady remained in Spychow."
This supposition struck Zbyszko as correct, he therefore said:
"God grant it to be as you say!"
But the Bohemian penetrated further into his thoughts, and proceeded with his reasoning.
"If she were in one of the sleighs the old gentleman would not have separated from her, or when he left the train he would have taken her with him on horseback, and we should have found her with him."
"Come, let us go there once more," said Zbyszko, in a restless voice. It struck him that the Bohemian might be right, perhaps they had not searched enough where the old man was discovered, perhaps Jurand had taken Danusia with him on horseback, and when the horse fell, she had left her father in search of assistance, in that case she might be somewhere under the snow in the neighborhood.
But Glowacz as though divining his thoughts, said:
"In such a case ladies' apparel would have been found in the sleighs, because she would not have left for the court with only her traveling dress."