Shaggy brows rose above the piercing eyes.
"I thought you didn't come from the bush?"
"Nor do I; but I have heard a good deal about tracking, this last day or two; and I had luck."
"You've come all this way alone?"
"Absolutely."
"Then nobody else knows anything about it. That's certain. But they will know! You'll be followed, and I shall be found!"
"I don't think so; they'll think I've gone somewhere else."
The convict gave her a long look, and his hawk's eye gleamed; then he turned his attention to the dapple-grey. It was over a minute before he spoke again.
"Do you know who I am?" he then asked.
"Captain Bovill."