"It's time we were off." With that they swung into the saddle, and rattled out of the courtyard, the stranger in the midst.

As he rounded the corner of the house he looked back and smiled farewell to Barbara and the smith and Jack, who stood together watching the departure.

Barbara waved her hand, and a moment later her fugitive was out of sight.
"THAT'S NOT ALL, IS IT ?" HESTER INQUIRED ANXIOUSLY, AS MISS REDSTONE STOPPED.
"ISN'T IT A GOOD ENDING ?" SHE ASKED.
"NO," SAID GREGORY, "OF COURSE NOT.

I WANT TO KNOW IF HE GOT TO THE HARBOUR ALL RIGHT, AND WHO HE WAS." "OH, I THINK WE KNOW WHO HE WAS," JANET SAID.
"WHO ?" GREGORY ASKED.

"I DON'T KNOW." "WELL, IT'S NOT THE END," SAID MISS REDSTONE; "BUT THE END IS VERY NEAR, AND THAT WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING." AND SHE BEGAN AGAIN.
The boys and their companion had not been gone an hour when in rode the Captain and his two soldiers with a terrible clatter.