“It is a challenge and we cannot allow them to get away with it,” Eleta asserted.
She did not wait for him to answer, but rode away holding the white flag and because she had not put on a hat the Marquis thought that she looked extremely lovely with the sunshine again turning her hair to gold.
She looked very small on a very large horse and at the same time she was going into battle against the enemy.
He knew that he had to save her as well as Pepe.
He therefore started giving his orders sharply in a manner that made everyone start running to do what he asked of them.
Eleta did not hurry across the fields.
She thought if anyone was watching her they might be agitated into thinking she had an army behind her.
She passed through the wood thinking as she did so that the kidnappers had
