“I will not stop it! Release me!”
“See here,” he said, “I know what I’m doing.”
“And I know what you are intending. You’re carrying me away into the darkness, and where you’re going with me I don’t know. But I won’t go with you.”
“I’m taking you to safety!” he protested.
“Let me down!” she begged.
“No.”
“Whoa!” she cried to the horses.
He struck the spurs into the one he rode, and it started on with such a jump that he was almost thrown out of the saddle.
She began to scream then, though they were so far from the fort by this time that her screams could not reach it.
“I’ll have to force you to stop that, if you don’t stop it yourself,” he threatened. His anger was growing.