"Huah!" came in a puff from the big fellow. "Something seems to be gnawing you still."
"Poys," broke in Hans, who still looked sad and weary of living, "I made der biggest mistook uf your life ven I let Vrankie go avay alone all py himseluf to chase dot liddle defil mit der saucy mouth—you heard me vawble!"
"If he had fallen into trouble, he would have done some shooting to let us know."
"But should we have heard it, Hodge?" asked Diamond.
"The island is not very large."
"I think it is pretty large, and I do not believe we could hear a gun fired on the other side even under favorable
circumstances, and the circumstances are not favorable now."
"Why not?"
"Wind is blowing the wrong way."
"Didn't think of that."