They were all she could buy.
After supper back to the colonel's, and at last got definite news. It
was unlikely that Skoplje would fall, and very little use loitering in
hopes. The colonel advised Jan to get his party out by the best route
possible, and we took a grateful farewell.
Coming back to the camp Jan had a nasty half-hour. Should we go by
Mitrovitza, or should we go by Berane? In the first case there was the
long route, the difficulty of getting lodgings and of transport, the
risk of falling behind the Serbian General Staff, and of finding the
country bare, the high passes of Petch and the snow; Willett was only
just recovering from a bad chill, West's arm had grown much worse, and
had been operated on in the morning by a doctor with a pair of scissors
_faute de mieux_--a most agonizing process. On the other hand, the
Berane route was unknown to the authorities, and might have fallen so
into decay that it was useless; we did not know where the Austro-Germans
were, and they might be already on the outskirts of Novi Bazar; if any
of us fell ill we should certainly be captured.
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