Reckon you'd better go, because I don't want to leave you here alone at night." "Are you going to take Tom ?" asked Bo.
"No.

The bear might get his scent.

An', besides, Tom ain't reliable on bears.

I'll leave Pedro home, too." When they had hurried supper, and Dale had gotten in the horses, the sun had set and the valley was shadowing low down, while the ramparts were still golden.

The long zigzag trail Dale followed up the slope took nearly an hour to climb, so that when that was surmounted and he led out of the woods twilight had fallen.