THE HACIENDA "What are those ?" said Emma presently, pointing to some animals that were half hidden by a clump of wild bananas.

I looked and saw that they were two of the mules which the brigands had cut loose from the diligence.

There could be no mistake about this, for the harness still hung to them.
"Can you ride ?" I asked.
She nodded her head.

Then we set to work.

Having caught the mules without difficulty, I took off their superfluous harness and put her on the back of one of them, mounting the other myself.