Carry it back to her." "I won't lie and tell you I'm sorry, because I'm a fool and still have a ghost of a hope, but this will be hard news to tell her, and I'd rather give five years of life than face the look that will come in her eyes." "I know it, Dick." "But this is final ?" "It is." "Then good-bye again, and--God bless you, Pierre." "And you, old fellow." They swerved their horses in opposite directions and galloped apart.
"It was nothing," said Pierre to Jack, when he came up with her and drew his horse down to a trot.

But he knew that she had read his mind.
But all day through the mazes of canyon and hill and rolling ground they searched patiently.

There was no cranny in the rocks too small for them to reconnoiter with caution.

There was no group of trees they did not examine.
Yet it was not strange that they failed.

In the space of every square mile there were a hundred hiding-places which might have served McGurk.