With Temple cowering beneath the stinging lash, Lorna took a chance and gave him a mighty push. Already off-balance, Temple slipped and tumbled over the grass, to roll end-over-end down the steep hillside and disappear in the dark trough of the ditch.
'Margaret!' Lorna half hopped, and half ran to where Margaret lay beside the well. Still dressed in the clothes she had worn when she left the hotel room, Margaret was tied hand and foot and had a piece of cloth stuffed in her mouth as a gag. Her left eye was swollen and heavily bruised.
Unfastening the clumsy knots of the gag, Lorna eased it out of Margaret's mouth. 'Hold on; I'll have you free in a moment.'
Margaret looked up from wild eyes. 'Thank you, Miss! The clerk told me that William was outside the hotel and when I went out they h
