“Hold where you are. I am going alone. Look out for the Man until I get back.”
This settled the question.
Reluctantly they turned back, and Pomp went about his cooking duties, while Barney gazed wistfully after Frank and declared:
“Be me sowl, it ain’t safe for that man to go out there alone. I’ll just kape me eye out all the same.”
So Barney proceeded to keep an eye out, while Pomp was busy at his work.
Reaching the woods, Frank entered them without hesitation.
He was confident that he had really seen the walls of a ruined building through the thick foliage.
To his best belief it was some part of the ruined city they were in quest of.
But upon entering the forest, Frank found that progress was not so easy as he fancied.
The vines and matted shrubbery were almost impenetrable.