Oliver Cr's 100 word challenge

Petrified, exhausted, breathless, I ran as fast as humanly possible, for dread that this might be the end. As I ran down the twisting alleyways that made the back streets of the city I could hear the thump and bang of the iron-shod boots that the city police wear behind me. I burst out onto the banks of the river and swum across. As I pulled my drenched form onto a pavement I saw the police already halfway across so I bolted like a hare sensing danger down an empty street. I heard the bell toll signalling midnight. I fell. Confusion. Yelling. Hands grabbing me. shaking me. Alone in the dark, waiting to face the judges hammer.