I will eat something to give me strength, and then I must hurry on." He had taken the precaution to take some provisions with him, and he began to eat them as he hurried along.
"They have just discovered their loss," thought Hogan.

"Will they follow me, I wonder?
I must be a good twelve miles away, and this is a fair start.

They will turn back before they have come as far as this.

Besides, they won't know in what direction I have come." Hogan was mistaken in supposing himself to be twelve miles away.

In reality, he was not eight.