The men who carried her off may either have come back or gone on with him.

If they wanted to go South they would go on; if they did not, he would probably have only hired them to carry her off and hand her over to him when he overtook them.

I will look at the time-table and see where the train stops.

It is a fast train I see," after consulting it.
"It stops at Petersburg, fifteen miles on, and at Hicks Ford, which is about fifty miles.

I should think the second place was most likely, as the cart could easily have gone there in two days.