“Well, you didn’t arrive a minute too soon,” declared Shirley. “We were badly frightened, weren’t we Mabel?”
“I know I was,” was her chum’s reply. She turned to Dick. “But how——”
“I’ll explain later,” interrupted Dick. “The thing to do now is to get away from here before they return. Come on.”
The girls started on ahead of him, and Dick turned for a glance over his shoulder.
Then he uttered an exclamation of alarm, and shouted:
“Run!”
For in that quick glance over his shoulder he had perceived the return of the revolutionists.
CHAPTER XVII.—MABEL BRINGS THE BLUEJACKETS.
Shirley and Mabel needed no further urging, and took to their heels. Dick followed close behind.
In the one brief glance in which he had perceived the return of the soldiers, Dick had been unable to determine whether their presence had been discovered, but he believed it wise to take a chance. Hence his command to run.