Well, sir, I hope he will give you and your father no more trouble." "I am sure I hope so," Mark said.

"I suppose that the fellow who was shot was one of the men who escaped with him from the convict prison." "That is likely enough.

Two would get home as easily as one, and the fact that they were both strangers here would account for the difficulty our men have had in their search for him.

You see, we have had nothing whatever to go on.

You must not be too sanguine about our catching the man in a short time: he is evidently a clever fellow, and I think it likely that once he got back he lost no time in getting away from this part of the country, and we are more likely to find him in the west or north than we are of laying hands on him here.