But shouts were not enough to check them.

What they both feared was a volley.

And that, as they passed out and beyond the menace of the culvert, did not come.
"Look back! See if they are looking after us!" cried Boris.
"No!" Fred shouted in his ear, for now the rush of the wind made it difficult for them to hear anything.

"The light is on us now--they might see too plainly.

And, if we were officers going as fast as this, there would be no reason for us to look back--Oh! Look out!" They had come to the turn.