Only one turn in it was visible, and over this, as they watched, they saw a dark spot pass, followed by a crowd of others.
"There they go," said Sam.

"The madmen are safe now.

See, there comes Desborough, and all of them; let us go down." They turned to go, and saw Jim coming towards them, by the route that Sam had come, all bespattered with clay, limping and leading his new grey horse, dead lame.
He threw up his hat when he saw them, and gave a feeble hurrah! but even then a twinge of pain shot across his face, and, when he was close, they saw he was badly hurt.
"God save you, my dear sister," he said; "I have been in such a state of mind; God forgive me, I have been cursing the day I was born.

Sam, I started about three minutes after you, and had very nearly succeeded in overhauling the Doctor, about two miles from here, when this brute put his foot in a crab hole, and came down, rolling on my leg.

I was so bruised I couldn't mount again, and so I have walked.