Inside a week from then he had indeed set fire to the Zagreb Boarding House and made off with an amount of Horvat capital summing almost six hundred dollars cash money and with the few belongings and supplies they could manage in a saddlepack and maybe no more than a few hours until it all got figured out they were in the same dark wood on the edge of town with a stolen palomino and he was trying to talk reason and a spirit of co-operation into the horse and it was only at great stubborn length and with dawn already greying the edges of the scene that the horse obliged and they lit out.
