“Bob! Bob Steele!”
Startled at hearing his name, the young fellow paused and whirled about. His astonishment grew. A woman—a young woman—had emerged through the trailing creepers and was beckoning wildly.
“This way!” she called, still in the same guarded tone. “Quick, if you want to save yourselves.”
A moment more, and Bob and Dick both recognized the speaker. She was not one whom they would have trusted had circumstances been other than they were. Just then, however, but little choice was left them.
“It’s that or nothing,” muttered Dick, and he and Bob charged back across the path and followed the girl into a tangle of bushes.
Hardly had they vanished when both parties of pursuers pushed into sight from right and left.
CHAPTER X.
STRANGE REVELATIONS.
The distrust of Bob and Dick, even at the moment when they were hemmed in on both sides by the revolutionists, will be understood when it is explained that their friend in need was none other than Ysabel Sixty.