To whom Seth Barker answers:
"If there's breath, it's on the hills; we'll surely die here."
And little Dolly, he said:
"I cannot run another step, sir; I'm beat—dead beat!"
For my part I had no word for them; it remained for Doctor Gray to lead again.
"I will show you the road," cried he, "if you will take it."
"And why not?" I asked him. "Why not, doctor?"
"Because," he answered, very slowly, "it's the road to Edmond Czerny's house."