“You always raise difficulties.”
“No; I don’t raise them, I see them. That’s all. I wish I didn’t. It may come to it at the last—but we had better wait for the guide. He ought to be here soon now.”
“Don’t the men know the road?”
“We had better wait for the guide.”
“Are not you the leader here?”
“In a way, yes; but not in such a matter. I am thinking all I know to find the best thing to do.”
“But suppose the others should come first before this guide, what then?”
“What others?”
“The rest of the men who were taking me to Maglai.”
“Oh, you were going to Maglai. How many were there?”