Each became eager and alert.
"What is it, Henry ?" asked Shif'less Sol.

"What have you seed ?" "Smoke! the smoke of a camp fire and it's on the other side of this neck.
I think it's the camp of Alvarez.

He must have been going more slowly than we thought." "We'll soon find out," said Shif'less Sol, as they advanced.
But the task was not as easy as they had thought.

The peninsula was very low and the greater part of it had been overflowed recently.

Their feet, no matter how lightly they stepped, sank in the mire, and when they pulled them out again the mud emitted a sticky sigh.