They continued to run, for another quarter of a mile, and then turned.
"Now we can go quietly," Dick said, breaking into a walk.

"This line will take us clear of the fort and village, and we have only to make straight for the ghauts.

I think we have thrown them well off the scent, and unless the officer suspects that we have only gone the other way to deceive him, and that we are really making for the ghauts, we shall hear nothing more of them." "It is capital," Surajah said.

"I could not think what you were doing, when you turned round the corner of the fort and made for the village, instead of going the other way.

But where did you get that gun from ?" Dick told him how it had come into his possession.
"It was not so much that I cared for the gun," he said, "as that I wanted to prevent the man from using it.