Charles saw he was making for the rocky thickets below the house, where the uneven ground and the bracken would give him a better chance.

Did he remember the deep sunken wall which, broken down in places, still separated the wilderness of the garden from the wilderness outside?
Charles was lean and active, and he soon out-distanced the other pursuers, but a man is hard to overtake who has such reasons for not being overtaken as Raymond, and do what he would he could not get near him.

He bore down to the left, but Raymond seemed to know it, and, edging away again, held for the woods a little higher up.

Charles tacked, and then as he ran he saw that Raymond was making with headlong blindness through the shrubbery direct for the deep sunk wall which bounded the Arleigh grounds.

Would he see it in the uncertain light?
He must be close upon it now.