He said with some embarrassment,-- "Yet we cannot leave her here alone; and of us two men, her husband must stay with her." "Dare we wait till the morning ?" asked Clementina.

"Lucy may be recovered then." Wogan shook his head.
"The courier we stopped at Wellishmile was not the only man sent after us.

Of that we may be very sure.

Here are we five miles from safety, and while those five miles are still unbridged--Listen!" Wogan leaned his head forward and held up his hand for silence.

In the still night they could hear far away the galloping of a horse.