He did not speak until old Donald lowered the glass.
"I can see for eight miles up the valley, an' there ain't a soul in sight," said MacDonald in answer to his question.

"I figgered they'd be along about now, Johnny." A dozen times Aldous had looked back at the camp.

Twice he had seen Joanne.
He looked now through the telescope.

She was nowhere in sight.

A bit nervously he returned the telescope to MacDonald.
"And I can't see Joanne," he said.
MacDonald looked.