Both used their eyes to the extent of their ability, but were unable to discover anything that bore a suspicious resemblance to a man.
So far as they could judge, they were entirely alone in this vast solitude.
“Do you expect to meet Sut very soon?”’
“Av coorse I do; why shouldn’t I?”
“But he went another way from you altogether after Lone Wolf.”
“That’s just it. He wint another way, and wint wrong, and he has been gone long ’nough to find out the same.”
“When he will turn back and follow you?”
“As soon as he finds he’s wrong, he’ll go right, and as I wint right, he’ll be on my heels.”
“But you know both of us have strayed a good deal off the track, and we have traveled in many places, where we haven’t made the slightest trail. How is he going to follow us then?”
The Irishman gave utterance to a scornful exclamation.