I swear they shall.

Pierre!" He merely leaned forward and touched the horse with his spurs, but after he had raced the first hundred yards he glanced back.

She was running hard for the house, and calling as she went.

Pierre cursed and spurred the horse again.
Yet even if Jim Boone and his men started out after him they could never overtake him.

Before they were in their saddles and up with him, he'd be a full three miles out in the hills.