When Belinda heard the clatter of hooves, she was so happy, that her suffering will end soon, that she didn't notice, that there were much more horses then just one as it supposed to be. So Sheriff and his men caught her without any struggle.
A hour later both girl found themselves almost naked in a sheriff's woodshed staying on all fours with their sore bottoms bare.
"Well, since you brought the child back in the same day and did him no harm, I guess the gallows will be too much for such a pitiful gangsters like you! But I just can't leave you two without any punishment! And I have no wish to see you two in my prison!" the sheriff said, raising the reins. Few seconds later the woodshed was filled with the sound of the leather's strokes over the bare skin and a two loud female voices, which were screaming and bawling in pain.
When he stopped, the both girls were very sore and very sorry about what they had done.
"Now you have a hour to leave my town! And if I'll hear about you two choose a wrong path again, you won't end up with just a whipping! No strip from your clothes and run for your lives!"