"You ask if we're to join in with the Yankees," he flared out to Jackson. "No! We'll camp apart and train apart. I won't go on with them."
"Well," said the scout, "I didn't never think we would, er believe ye could; not till they git in trouble agin--er till a certain light wagon an' mules throws in with us, huh?"
"You'll say no more of that, Jackson! But one thing: you and I have got to ride and see if we can get any trace of Woodhull."
[pg 125]
"Like looking for a needle in a haystack, an' a damn bad needle at that," was the old man's comment.
[pg 126]