He spoke in his professionally calm voice.
"Gentlemen, it seems to me that Mr.Smith and Mr.Ribshaw" (nodding to the man with the rawhide whip) "are both right.

What good are we doing here?
What we want to know is what's happened to Mr.Harkless.It looks just now like the shell-men might have done it.

Let's find out what they done.

Scatter and hunt for him.

'Soon as anything is known for certain, Hibbard's mill whistle will blow three times.