It seemed darker than when I came through before, or perhaps my eyes were dazzled by the glare of the street lamps.

But still we got along pretty well, I helping my companion with all my power.
"Can we do it ?" she gasped.
"Please God," said I; "a clear quarter of an hour will do it, and they ought to take that to finish off the colonel." For I had little doubt of the issue of that _melee_.
On we sped, and already we could see the twinkle of the waves through the thinning trees.

Five hundred yards more, and there lay life and liberty and love! Well, of course, I might have known.

Everything had gone so smoothly up to now, that any student of the laws of chance could have foretold that fortune was only delaying the inevitable slap in the face.

A plan that seemed wild and risky had proved in the result as effectual as the wisest scheme.