He came towards them like a whirlwind just as Abe was pulling himself up from the ground and swearing with a foulness that polluted the air around them.
As he pulled himself to his feet, the pistol still in his hand, the Marquis literally threw himself from his horse.
He pulled Abe to the ground and a second later Chang had landed on Bert, knocking him unconscious with a sharp blow at the neck, which if Elmina had seen it she would have known was part of Kung Fu.
Lying on the ground, she had eyes only for the Marquis.
He knocked Abe unconscious and came towards her to lift her to her feet.
She did not see Chang go after the Frenchman and knock him out in the same way as he had Bert.
All she could see was the Marquis’s eyes as he looked at her.
“Are you all right?”
As he spoke, he l
