An indistinguishable shout again reached them.
"I can't make out what he is saying, but it seems to be very important. I wonder who he is. Now, it may be right to go back, but it may be wrong. Hark! he's calling again."
"Something about 'back' is what he seems to say," said Ædric.
Corman still waited, and gazed in the direction of the horseman.
"What I can't understand is, why Father Dicoll is not there. I don't think it is all right, or he would be on the quay, and would wave to us, or make some signal."
Ædric looked carefully to see whether he could not make out his figure anywhere. At last he called out:
"I see him. There he is; he is waving his hands."
Corman looked where Ædric pointed, and saw Father Dicoll, who was certainly making some kind of sign, but it did not seem to him that they were signs to return.
"I think he means us to go on. Now do thou watch him, don't look at the other man at all. I will turn the raft round and row back. If he waves his hands, as if sending us away, tell me at once."
Corman then turned the raft round, while Ædric looked intently at Father Dicoll.