When we found that the leader of the gang was not with them, and I learned from the man we had taken prisoner that he had started to ride back here, twenty-four hours before, I was naturally very anxious about you; knowing, as I did, what desperate actions the man was capable of.

So we started at once and, after a sharp fight with the blacks, got down in the evening to the water hole, sixty miles on our way back, where we had camped the second night out.
"Of course the horse I had ridden could travel no further, but I pushed on with my black boy, on two of the horses which we had taken from the bush rangers, and which had been led so far.

We made another forty miles by midnight, and then halted till daybreak, to give the horses rest; but they were so done up, this morning, that we could not get them much beyond a foot pace.

When we came to the first settlement we exchanged them for fresh ones, and galloped on; and, thank God, we are just in time." The tears were standing in the girl's eyes, and she laid her hand on his, and said quietly: "Thank you.

Then you have ridden a hundred and fifty miles since yesterday morning, besides having two fights; and all because you were uneasy about me ?" "I had, as you see, good reason to be uneasy, Miss Ellison." At this moment a horse's hoofs were heard approaching, and Jim galloped up.