Keary helped the two women into the cart, Una sat in the back and Fenella sat in the front beside Keary, who was looking over at her with a real endearing look in his eyes. Una thought those two are just head over heels for one another—she could see the love that they felt for one another in the way that they gazed over at each other with looks of tenderness. It was about six in the morning as they made their way towards Dumbartonshire as the morning sun began to show itself.

“If all goes well during our journey we should arrive in Dumbartonshire in two days time. Hopefully the weather will be on our side for the journey. It certainly looks like we are going to have a sunny day today for traveling” replied Keary with a big grin as he snapped the whip above the horses to get them to keep moving forward down the road. The woman looked towards him with smiling faces.

Keary had packed enough food and supplies to see them through their two day journey to Dumbartonshire. He was hoping that Egan would reach Callum safely and they would come and meet them on the road. It would be a far safer journey with more men, but for now he would have to keep a sharp look out for any suspicious looking characters traveling the roadway. He knew all too well that there was all kinds of bad characters roaming the countryside looking for trouble. They would stop at Sheridan wood tonight and make camp, that would give them some shelter out of the winds. He had to remain calm and cool and not show the women that he was worried about their safety. Instead he told them funny tales that had the two woman laughing as they headed down the road. They spent that day on the road stopping for quick breaks along the way, they had bypassed a few farmers on the road bringing their sheep to market, but other than that it was a pretty quiet road. It was early evening when they saw Sheridan woods ahead in the distance.

“Ah ladies there lies ahead the fair Sheridan woods where we will be resting our heads for a few hours before continuing our journey earlier tomorrow morning. We will have a nice fire tonight and a good meal and some apple cider to wash it down with” announced Keary as he encouraged the horses to pick up their pace.

The women had collected some water at the nearby creek, while Keary tended to the horses getting them out of the harnesses to relax for the night. He led them down to the creek to have a nice drink of the crystal clear water that flowed in the forest creek. He soaked down the horses giving them a nice cool bath, that they seemed to be enjoying immensely. The two women headed back to camp to get preparations done for dinner. They were making a nice stew with some salted pork and carrots and potatoes. They were all feeling rather hunger and the stew was going to be just the thing to hit the spot and satisfy their hunger. Una began slicing up the potatoes and Fenella chopped up the carrots. Everything was thrown into the one big cooking pot.
Fenella and Una sat at the river's edge paddling their feet in the water and having a little wash after eating their stew. It felt so good to wash themselves in the cool river water on this hot humid day. They had told Keary that they were going to bathe in the river, and then they would return to camp. The two women went into the river just wearing their thin sheaths which upon becoming soaked in the cool water were completely see-through. The hard erect nipples of the women stood out against the fine wet material.

“Well if that isn't the most lovely site my eyes have ever seen, two lovely maidens bathing in a river! Don't you agree lads what a pretty sight this is!” replied Morgan Travis.
The other two men accompanying him readily agreed with him. They had their pistols pointed towards the two wet women. Who were shocked that they did not hear these men approach—they were on foot, which was strange. They must have left their horses somewhere before they snuck up on them Una thought. Fenella whispered quickly to her not to mention Keary as they may think that they are alone.

“I am sorry that we have interrupted you two lassies in the middle of your bathing, but I am afraid we are going to have to ask you both to come out of the water, quietly. Dry yourselves off and put your clothing back on. If there wasn't a price on your head Miss Una we wouldn't be treating you and your maid so well, let me tell you. We are here only to bring you back to your father's house and collect our reward.”

“Where did you lassies make camp?”
Replied Morgan with a cold look towards the women. Una pointed in the direction of their camp.
“Allow me to introduce myself, I am Morgan Travis—bounty hunter—and these are my two associates Dillan, and Ronnie Black, two evil brothers. If I were you lassies I would be careful around these two, they are really not nice—if you don't do what they say they wouldn't think twice about hurting you both. I will try and keep them from losing their tempers with you, but I cannot make any promises. You best do as your told and quickly with no back talk, unless you like to be punished?”
Both women quickly agreed to do as they were told and try not to make the evil “Black” brothers angry. They fumbled around trying to rush as quickly as they could in dressing themselves.

As Fenella was stepping into her gown the larger brother (Dillan) stepped towards her.
“Just a minute there let me see what is under that little shift of yours—it looks like you got some nice big breasts—let us have a peek at them” said Dillan as he pulled open Fenella's shift to reveal her large bare breasts. He leered at them and then began to rub and feel them, while his brother laughed behind him begging him to let him feel Fenella's breasts. Morgan then shouted at both the brothers telling them to leave her alone, he wanted to go to the women's campsite and retrieve their things then head back to their own campsite before dark.
Fenella called Dillan a pig then spat at him. He smacked her hard across the face causing her to fall to the ground. Una tried to run to help Fenella, but the other brother blocked her way and demanded that she stay right where she was.

“Get up wench! How dare you spit in my face, you are so lucky that I didn't shoot you for your disrespect!'
Fenella stumbled to her feet wiping away the trickle of blood that started to come out of the corner of her mouth.

“Lead us back to your camp at once!” Morgan shouted at the women.
They had made enough noise to warn Keary that they were on their way back and were not alone. By the time they walked into the camp he was no were to be seen. He had managed to escape without being detected. They noticed that his horse was gone, hopefully he would bring back help before they ended up back in the hands of Una's evil father. She knew it would be the death of her if she was handed back to him. The evil men through all their belongings into the cart, and told them to get into the back of the cart. They did as they were told without uttering a word. They were both very frightened of what these men might do to them. They headed to their own campsite that was not too far, there was another man awaiting their arrival at camp. He was an older man who worked with the Black brothers—Jimmy Gopps. He was the one that informed the others of the 20£ bounty offered by Fergus for his daughter's return to him that he had seen posted in Milton. He had stayed behind to take care of their horses and camp, while the other three captured Una and Fenella.

“I see that you have captured the run away bride to be and her maid—good job lads—this will be a good pay out for us all! Once we deliver these wenches we can celebrate at the nearest ale house!” he shouted out with a big grin on his wrinkled weather worn rough looking face.