They reined short and saw big Dick Wilbur riding his bay after them, but at some distance he halted and shouted: "Pierre!" "He's come back to us!" cried Jack.
"No.

It's only some message." "Do you know ?" "Yes.

Stay here.

This is for me alone." And he rode back to Wilbur, who swung his horse close alongside.
However hard he had followed in the pursuit of happiness, his face was drawn with lines of age and his eyes circled with shadows.
He said: "I've kept close on her trail, Pierre, and the nearest she has come to kindness has been to send me back with a message to you." He laughed without mirth, and the sound stopped abruptly.
"This is the message in her own words: 'I love him, Dick, and there's nothing in the world for me without him.

Bring him back to me.