We knew some mischief was afoot, and they were so eager on it that we came up unnoticed.

I wanted Tom to stay back, but he was afraid he would be needed." "And Shif'less Sol ?" said Paul.

"Where is he ?" Henry laughed.
"The shiftless one is about the shiftiest man in the wilderness," he replied.

"Do you suppose that he would ever walk into a trap, when there was nothing inside the trap worth the risk?
Didn't he know that Tom and I were sufficient for any task that might be ahead of us this morning ?" Paul laughed, too, and the others were glad to see the color coming back into his face.
"Good old Sol," he said, "I'm glad he didn't come too.

He's somewhere out there in the woods, and he's the one link between us and Kentucky.