GSS writes:
===M THE GM,Arthur MacBride? highly unlikely,they were not playing by the Queensbury Rules.
I reckon they disappeared quickly,before reinforcements arrived, but who knows? it should be left to the imagination.
the story has finished.finish the song. ===

Disagree, GSS. They paused long enuff 4 Arthur to say "The Devil run with you for delaying our walk" - with implication surely that they just nonchalantly resumed their interrupted walk, which they merely regarded as having been temporarily 'delayed'?