"Get in quickly, Dick, and let us be going," murmured Ama hastily.  "The storm is passing away, and it cannot now be long before some one will visit the prisoners to see how they have fared; indeed, that may have happened already.  And, whenever it occurs, your absence will certainly be discovered, and a search for you will be at once begun.  It will take a little while for them to ascertain that you are nowhere concealed in the town, but when that has been determined they will at once think of the river, and a party will be despatched in pursuit; therefore it is imperative that we should secure as long a start as possible."