“No.”
“Whut? Haow’s that?”
“Neither Lawrence nor Fowler escaped.”
“Then it was Fowler with him?”
“I believe so.”
“Whut happened to um?”
“They attempted to ford Big Sandy River.”
“An’ got drownded?”
“No. Where they tried to cross is nothing but a bed of quicksands. Horses and men went down into the quicksands. They were swallowed up forever.”
The doctor came at last. He extracted the bullet from Blanche Carson’s side, and he told her she would get well, as the wound was not dangerous.