The two travelled all night, except when they were left, for odd numbers of minutes, at branch-places, up illimitable flights of steps, or down wells-which was the only variety of those branches-and, early in the morning, were turned out on a swamp, a mile or two from the town they sought.
Gau osoan bidaiatu ziren biak, salbu eta itxaroten zeuzkatenean, minutu batzuk betetzeko, trenbidearen lotuneetan, konta ezin ahala eskailera maila igoz, edo behera bidean-lotune horien berezko ezaugarri bakarra-eta goizean goiz padura aldean jaitsi ziren, bila ari ziren herritik pare bat miliara edo.