Brandon continued to follow them, notwithstanding what
Mary had said, and she thanked him and her God ever after that he did.
They had been walking not more than five minutes, when, just as the
girls turned a corner into a secluded little street, winding its way
among the fish warehouses, four horsemen passed Brandon in evident
pursuit of them. Brandon hurried forward, but before he reached the
corner heard screams of fright, and as he turned into the street
distinctly saw that two of the men had dismounted and were trying to
overtake the fleeing girls. Fright lent wings to their feet, and their
short skirts affording freedom to their limbs, they were giving the
pursuers a warm little race, screaming at every step to the full limit
of their voices. How they did run and scream! It was but a moment till
Brandon came up with the pursuers, who, all unconscious that they in
turn were pursued, did not expect an attack from the rear. The men
remaining on horseback shouted an alarm to their comrades, but so
intent were the latter in their pursuit that they did not hear.
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