The young couple obeyed, though they did not comprehend this order.
The Major-domo went up to them.
"Look!" he muttered, and stretched out his arm toward the savannah.
A rapid gallop, that drew nearer every second, but which the noise of their own march had prevented them from hearing, now smote their ears, and almost at the same moment they saw through the screen of foliage which hid them from sight, several horsemen pass as if borne along by a hurricane.
A branch struck off the hat of one of the riders as he passed.
"Don Stenio!" Doña Clara exclaimed in horror.
"Zounds!" Don Sancho said, "We were just in time."