“Yes, every word of it, Hugh.”
“He must have had the children along with him?”
“Just as I said,” she told him. “Peter thought of us because I’ve been kind to him a few times. He was trying to fetch them here.”
“But they gave out on the way; that’s about what I made out he said?” the scout master remarked, with a note of interrogation in his voice.
“Yes, and I really believe Peter must have done the best he could trying to hide them so the fire wouldn’t injure the poor little darlings.”
“He mentioned a place he called the Dry Spring?”
“We all know that place, and he would have to pass it on the way here from the Bargers’ house,” Mrs. Heffner explained.
“Do you think I could find it?” Hugh asked next.
She considered for a brief space of time.
“The smoke in the forest might bother you, Hugh.”