“Hatching some devilish plot, I expect.”
“It seems it requires a good while to do it.”
“Don’t get impatient; they’ll show themselves in time.”
“Have you any idea of their number?”
“There were something like a half-dozen prowling around.”
“There is one less now at any rate.”
“I suppose so; but there’s enough left to occasion a little trouble at least. Where did Alf go with the gal?”
“Off yonder, a short distance. Hadn’t we better get closer together?”
“No; I don’t know as there is any necessity for it. We’re as safe, drawn up in this style, as in any other I can imagine.”