Into this they hurtled, as from behind them came cries of "Stop, thief!" and the crunching of many footsteps.
Off went Wink's hat as he fled after the scurrying Perry.

Ossie went down in a tangle of briars and prickly things with a grunt, rolled somehow clear and was off again.

"This way!" shouted a voice.

"I seen 'em! They went in here! Come on, men!" Perry was running alongside a wall now, as he hoped, in the general direction of the street.

Behind him came Wink and Ossie, crashing through shrubbery with a desperate disregard for noise.