But Emma had touched a new chord in my nature, and I felt, whether I liked it or not, that whatever I could do for myself I must do for her also.
So I shuffled forward again.
"Listen," I whispered, "I have been to look and I do not believe that the cliff is very steep just here.

Will you try it with me ?" "Of course," she answered; "I had as soon die of a broken neck as in any other way." "We must watch our chance then, or they will see us run and shoot.

Wait till I give you the signal." She nodded her head and we waited.
At length, while the fourth and last merchant, who stood next to me, was being dealt with, just as in our despair we were about to throw ourselves into the gulf before them all, fortune gave us our opportunity.

This unhappy man, having probably some inkling of the doom which awaited him, broke suddenly from the hands of his captors, and ran at full speed down the road.

After him they went pell-mell, every thief of them except one who remained--fortunately for us upon its farther side--on guard by the door of the diligence in which four people, three merchants and a priest, were now imprisoned.