If Cassidy sees her, and talks with her, something in those blue-flower eyes of hers might give us away if she knew we were hiding up among the rocks of the Stew-Kettle.

But I'm hopin' God A'mighty won't let her see Cassidy.

And I'm thinking He won't, Pied-Bot, because I've a pretty good hunch He wants us to settle with Jed Hawkins before we go." It was a habit of his years of aloneness, this talking to a creature that could make no answer.

But even in the darkness he sensed the understanding of Peter.
Rocks grew thicker and heavier under their feet, and they went more slowly, and occasionally stumbled in the gloom.

But, after a fashion, they knew their way even in darkness.