ly but clumsily built, and lacked the agility and muscular force
of the young athlete. But Bob's victory did not come easily. Again
and again the fellow renewed his attack, while the woman stood by with
a look of terror in her eyes.

"Save me," she cried, again and again, "or he will kill me."

At length, by a well-planted blow, Bob sent his opponent staggering to
the ground. The man was stunned for a second, but only for a second.
He raised himself to his feet slowly.

"All right, guv'ner, you have beaten me," he said. "It wasn't my
fault; if she weren't so b---- obstinate, there would have been no
trouble."

Then evidently hearing some one near by, he shouted aloud: "I say,
Bill, come here;" and Bob realised that a new danger was at hand.

"Wait a minute, guv'ner," said the fellow, "I just want to ask your
advice." But Bob was too alert to be caught in this way. Believing
that there must be a police station in the village, he, too, shouted
aloud.

"Help!--help!"

A minute later he found his position doubly dangerous. The one man he,
after a severe struggle, had been able to overcome, but he knew that he
would be no match for the two, and that the woman would be at their
mercy.

"Get away while you can," he said to her; but the woman did not appear
to heed him--she seemed spellbound by what was taking place.

Both men rushed on him madly, and only by a trick which he had learned
as a boy did he save himself. Tripping one of them up, he was able at
the same time to parry the other's blow, and keep him at bay.

His position, however, was desperate, for the second man had again
risen to his feet, and prepared for another attack.

Then suddenly it was all over, the heavy thud of a policeman's
truncheon was heard, and a few minutes later, with Bob's help, the two
men were led away to the police station.

"Lucky for you I was near by, sir," said the constable.

"Lucky for the poor woman too," was Bob's rejoinder.

"I've had my eye on these two blackguards for a day or two," replied
the policeman. "They are a bad lot, and I do not think the woman is
much better than they are. Tell me exactly what happened, sir?"

The policeman nodded his head sagely when Bob had finished his story.

"Yes, sir," he said, "you have done a good night's work. I am afraid I
shall have to take your name and address, because you will be called
upon as witness against them. You have helped me to put my hand upon a
nice