"You shall see wery soon. Shtoop low." He himself crouched close to the ground. The men followed his example. "Come a little more on. Now you see that rock?" Lysander saw it. "Vell, it is not there."
They crept forward a little farther. Then Carl stopped again, and said,—
"You see that tree?"
"Which?"
"All alone in the moonshine." Lysander perceived it.
"Vell," said Carl, "it is not there."
Again they advanced, and again he paused and pointed.
"You see them little saplings?" Lysander distinguished them revealed against the sky.
"Vell," said Carl, "it is not there neither."
He was crawling on again, when Sprowl seized his collar.