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However , passing that over , I will admit that we are just half a day 's march from here and looking for General Bibikoff every hour . '' `` Pray make General Bibikoff my compliments when you meet him , '' replied Count Saxe , gravely . `` And since your prisoners can be reached to-night , not a moment must be lost in setting out . '' It was high noon when we had perceived Schnelling , and by two o'clock all the arrangements were made , the money was put in two leather bags , I had picked out ten men and had started . I had not much fear of treachery on the part of our Russian-Courland friends . They knew Maurice of Saxe too well to try any tricks on him . We struck out through a green , well-wooded country , avoiding the highroads and ever going deeper into the forests of larch and fir that led toward the west from Uzmaiz .