They were but a mile from the village when they heard, on the still night air, distant shouts, followed half a minute later by the winding of a horn; then, almost immediately, a glimmering light appeared on the highest turret of the hold, and this rapidly broadened out into a sheet of flame.
"They have discovered our escape, by some misfortune or other," Oswald exclaimed, "and they will be after us, before many minutes have passed.
You must run in earnest now, girls." "Do you run on, Oswald," Janet said, "you and Roger.

We will turn and walk back.

They will do us no harm." Oswald thought of the murder of the girls' mother, and knew that, in their fury at having been tricked, the Bairds were capable of anything.
"It is not to be thought of," he said.

"Such a watch would henceforth be kept that there would be no possibility, whatever, of effecting your rescue.

We must take our chance together.
"What think you had best be done, Roger ?" "In sooth, I know not.