“No, no, except to repeat that you shall be remembered by me. I am sorry that I detained you; it is best you should make haste.”
“Then, if you are sure, I will follow the Señorita, but I can wait a brief while longer, Captain.”
It was the latter who now showed nervousness, though the strain upon him was not a tenth of what the other suffered.
“Off with you! Do you not see that you may lose the Señorita?”
The pony with its rider was passing from view below the margin of the plateau, and the man now made the haste that looked natural. Although the trail was easily followed, his place was in advance. While gliding past the stirrup, he said:
“We have been fortunate, Señorita, but much danger still threatens.”
CHAPTER XXIII.
