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As you gallop away. Marshal Ney orders you to stop and then, realising you are ignoring him, orders three of the young officers on his staff to arrest you. They charge after you and 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: