Of course it was Warrigal that was holding them.
'We must double-bank my horse,' whispers Jim, 'for a mile or two, till we're clear of the place; we didn't want to bring a lot of horses about.' He jumped up, and I mounted behind him.

Starlight was on Rainbow in a second.

The half-caste disappeared, he was going to keep dark for a few days and send us the news.

Jim's horse went off as if he had only ten stone on his back instead of pretty nigh five-and-twenty.

And we were free! Lord God! to think that men can be such fools as ever to do anything of their own free will and guiding that puts their liberty in danger when there's such a world outside of a gaol wall--such a heaven on earth as long as a man's young and strong, and has all the feelings of a free man, in a country like this.