They saw the woman trying to urge her horse to greater speed.

But the poor beast, evidently exhausted, made no response.

The woman, turning in the saddle, looked back at her pursuers.
"By all that's wonderful!" exclaimed Obed White, "the bundle that she's carrying is a baby!" "It's so," said Smith, "an' you can see well enough now that she's one of our own people.

We must show her that she's got nothin' to fear from us." He shouted through his arched hands in tremendous tones that they were Texans and friends.

The woman stopped, and as they galloped up she would have fallen from her horse had not Obed White promptly seized her and, dismounting, lifted her and the baby tenderly to the ground.