"Still, it can't be helped," he said.
"I'll lose no time," said Seaforth, who had been watching his comrade.
"Are you quite sure you have told us all, Harry ?" Alton slowly drew a strip of hide from beneath him, and passed it across.

Seaforth and Okanagan bent over it together, their faces showing intent in the light of the fire, while Alton laughed softly as he watched them.
"What do you make of that ?" he said.
Seaforth glanced round sharply.

"It's a trifle curious.

That hide's thick, and yet the beast has evidently broken it, but it pulled up the peg." "Did you find the peg ?" said Alton, and Okanagan swept his glance across the faces before him.

Seaforth's expressed bewilderment, Alton's was grim.
"I found one," said Seaforth--"Julius Caesar's." "Yes," said Alton dryly.