Midwinter Town: A Novella
“Since we have destroyed Azba, I have no urgent need of him. No large band will appear now till the first grass.”
“Is Azba cut to pieces then?” inquired Novoveski.
“So cut up that I do not know if twenty-five men escaped; and even those will be caught one by one, if Mellehov has not caught them already.”
“I am terribly glad of this,” said Novoveski, “for now it will be possible to go to Rasrkoff? In safety,” here he turned to Basira: “We can take to Sir Rushet the letters which her grace, our benefactress, has mentioned.”