“A week,—almost—not quite.”
“Where is she now?”
“Went off—she play—she soon come back.”
This statement was perplexing and Pendar did not understand it.
“When did she go?”
“One—two—tree hour; she soon come back,” he repeated.
“Who went with her?”
“No one—she go with herself; she not go far.”
“Which way?”
Pierotti pointed in the direction of the cabin of Uncle Tommy Waters. The path which has been mentioned as dimly marked, took another course before joining the main trail which branched off from the highway a little way out from Chesterton.