And between them the two men with difficulty carried the corpse up the bank. Kitty, who went in front, showed them where she wanted the body put. They returned in silence to their boat.
"I am very sorry, Kitty," said the Baker.
"You could not help it," sobbed the girl.
"And what shall we do now," asked Smith. "Do you think they will come after us again?"
Kitty shook her head.
"They will be too frightened," she said. "I am frightened. How did you do it?"
But there was no time to explain the inexplicable to her.
"Do you think we can go on?"
"Yes," said Kitty. "But first let us go over and see if they left anything to eat on the other side."
"I tell you she's got a lot of savvy," said the Baker, who was getting furiously hungry, and talked as if glad to discover the strange girl who had attached herself to him was not quite a fool. "She's got a lot of savvy."