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The hussar loses his aim and has to reset the charge in his pistol. This does not take long, however, and you have only galloped a few paces when you are almost jolted from the saddle when the pistol ball buries itself in your left arm. Lose 6 Endurance points. Ney orders three of his officers to arrest you and they charge after you. You urge your mount on through the smoke of the French cannon. One of the officers, a young hussar, whose grey and red pelisse streams out behind him in the wind, has a good mount and is gaining on you. You ride down into a small dip, jumping a brook out of sight of the rest of the army and he follows. Do you: