Listen! Don't you hear something stirring--there!" She peered fearfully into the dusk behind them.
"Probably," he answered.

"There are lots of prairie dogs and things about.

The more you listen, the more you hear on the prairie, especially at night." There was silence for a moment, and then he added: "My broncho'll steer straight for Slow Down Ranch, and that'll bring my men.

You can be quite sure there'll be a search-party out from Tralee, too, at the first streak of dawn.

You can't make the journey, so the only thing to be done is to wait here.