Hurry up now." Carter departed with click of steel, and MacHugh evidently turned to his companion.
"We'll catch the lad all right, Grant.

Some of those outposts will nab him before daylight.

No use our waiting around here; let's go back upstairs." The girl's nervous grasp on my arm tightened, her lips pressed close to my ear.
"I--I must get back to my place at the table," she whispered.

"Surely you know what to do; this is a rear door; there are stables a hundred feet away; you must get a horse, and ride fast--you--you will do this!" "Yes, of course--but how can I thank you ?" "Don't try; don't ever even think of it again.

I hardly know what mad impulse sent me here.