The girl was well screened, but instinctively she drew still further back behind the bushes--but not so far that the two on horseback, riding so eagerly, were out of her view.

The road dipped into the hollow.
the galloping horsemen disappeared with it.

Susan shifted her gaze to the point on the brow of the hill where the road reappeared.

She was quivering in every nerve.

When they came into view again she would know.
The place she was watching swam before her eyes.