“What do you mean, just as well?”
“Well, if we had caught up with it we might have more than we could have handled,” Rex said slowly.
“You may be right at that. Anyhow it’s no use running after it in the dark. But wait till next time,” he shouted.
Was it fancy or did they hear a low cackling laugh float back to them from the depths of the thick woods?
“What was it?” Rex asked.
“Never heard anything like it before,” Jack replied.
“And I hope I’ll never hear it again.”
“Did it look like the thing you chased the other night?”
“I guess so, but it was too dark to see much both times. All I could see the other time was an indefinite shape.”
Bob and Kernertok were up as soon as it was light.