Raymond will you tell me where you came from now ?" he asked.
"From your house," he replied; "I went to fetch you to him; but you were both gone, and I overtook you--I could aisy do that--ha ha." "But what is the company that's with him, Raymond ?" asked the female, naturally anxious to understand this part of his communication.

Raymond, however, was now in one of his silent moods, and appeared not to hear her; at all events, he did not think it worth his while to give her any reply.

For a short period he kept murmuring indistinctly to himself, or if a word or two became audible, it was clear that his favorite sport of cock-fighting had altogether engrossed his attention.
They had now reached a rough, dark knoll of heath, which brought them in view of the cabin to which they were going, and also commanded an extensive and glorious prospect of the rich and magnificent inland country which lay behind them.

The priest and his now almost exhausted companion, to whom its scenery was familiar, waited not to look back upon its beauty or its richness.

Not so Raymond, who, from the moment they began to ascend the elevation, kept constantly looking back, and straining his eyes in one particular direction.