They came at last to the river.
"Now I can show you exactly how that fellow put us off the scent here," their guide proceeded.

"He seems to have picked up something, Edgar, in those South American trips of yours, for a cleverer thing I never saw.

You see all these bullrushes everywhere--clouds of them, all along the river ?" "We call them tules," Quest muttered.

"Well ?" "When Craig arrived here," Lord Ashleigh continued, "he must have heard the baying of the dogs in the distance and he knew that the game was up unless he could put them off the scent.

He cut a quantity of these bullrushes from a place a little further behind those trees there, stepped boldly into the middle of the water, waded down to that spot where, as you see, the trees hang over, stood stock still and leaned them all around him.