"He came up and talked with us a few minutes, while you were gone," said Katrina, who was more alarmed than the others, "and then said he would go back and get on his horse so as to be ready to start if all should prove right, and that is the last we saw of him."
"Did he say nothing about going away?" asked the Texan.
"Not a word."
"What did he talk about?"
"Nothing in particular," said Katrina, trying to recall his words.
"I remember," put in Colonel Crockett, "that he said that he believed something was follerin' him—either a bear or red-skin."
"That makes it look serious," remarked Sebastian, in an undertone.
"Why so?"
"Because probably something was following, and that something has been the means of his disappearance."
"I don't see as there's any thing in that," added Colonel Crockett, "for he talked the same way when you and Katrina came up."