That's the way I look at it, and I reckon the rest of you are in the same boat." "If such a thing should happen, Thad," said Hugh, sturdily, "we'll simply turn around and come back again; only, under the new conditions, some of you will have to turn out with the lanterns, and search alongside the road as we go slowly along." Horatio gave a gasp that was plainly audible.
"Do you really mean, Hugh," he went on to task, in a voice that trembled more or less despite Horatio's effort to control the same, "that you half expect to find K.K.lying alongside the road, either dead, or else insensible from the pain of his broken leg ?" "Well, I wasn't just thinking things would be as bad as all that," Hugh hastened to say.

"What I had in mind was the chance of coming on his footprints, and then trying to follow the same.

We could easily tell them, for K.K.had on his running shoes, you remember.
By tracking him, step by step, don't you see, we could tell just where he met with his trouble, even find out, perhaps, the nature of his accident, and continue to follow him up." "That would suit me first rate," said Julius, promptly; "and my fine electric hand-torch might come into play with a vengeance.

There's nothing better going for following a trail in the dark, because the light is focussed, you see, on a small compass.

Why, you can pick up night-walkers like everything when the fishing season's on, by using a flashlight.