“Perhaps the savage had something to do with Wilson’s disappearance?” suggested the scientist; but Haverly shook his head. He was busy trying to figure out the puzzle, which as yet defied him.
“I allow it beats me,” he admitted at length. “What brings the engineer so far from the coast?”
“He may not have been here at all,” Seymour replied.
“I guess this handkerchief ain’t walked here!”
“What about the savage?” persisted the baronet.
“You can gamble on it as he picked it up. Say, has it struck you as bein’ kinder peculiar that we should find the nose-rag in this yer valley?”
“You mean?” interrogatively.
“Have the vampires had anything to do with it?”
“Heaven forbid!” cried Seymour; “the thought’s too horrible!”
“We shall see,” the Yankee answered as they moved on again.