CHAPTER SIXValeta was at first so helpless with the cloth over her head and shaken by the rough way that she had been flung down onto the seat of the carriage that it was difficult to breathe let alone think.
Then, as she heard and felt the wheels turning beneath her and heard Harry begin to cry from fright, she put up her hands to pull the cloth from her head.
“Leave it be!” came a rough voice, “or I’ll tie you up!”
She realised then there was a man sitting opposite her on the seat of the carriage with his back to the horses and for a moment the harshness of his voice and the threat he had uttered made her speechless.
She tried to recall what had happened.
She had been talking to Harry when she had heard the sound of a vehicle on the gravel and seen two horses come round the curve of
