I am glad now that I did not do it.

I had hardly got the reins before they were all back and bundled you into the coach.

I was not afraid of their seeing me, but I was scared lest I should not know which road to take, and so set them on the trail.

But they made it easy to me by sending some of their riders in front, so I did well until I saw that by-track and made a run for it.

We'd have got away, too, if that rogue hadn't shot the horse, and if the beasts had faced the water." The guardsman again pressed his comrade's hands.