It was dusk when the chase reached the river bank, and I have no doubt the bullrushes presented quite a natural appearance.

At any rate, although the dogs came without a check to the edge of the river, where he stepped off, they never picked the scent up again either on this side or the other.

We tried them for four or five hours before we took them home.
The next morning, while the place was being thoroughly searched, we came upon the spot where these bullrushes had been cut down, and we found them caught in the low boughs of a tree, drifting down the river." The Professor's tone was filled with something almost like admiration.
"I must confess," he declared, "I never realised for a single moment that Craig was a person of such gifts.

In all the small ways of life, in campaigning, camping out, dealing with natural difficulties incidental to our expeditions, I have found him invariably a person of resource, ready-witted and full of useful suggestions.

But that he should be able to apply his gifts with such infinite cunning, to a suddenly conceived career of crime, I must admit amazes me." Quest had lit a fresh cigar and was smoking vigorously.
"What astonishes me more than anything," he pronounced, as he stood looking over the desolate expanse of country, "is that when one comes face to face with the fellow he presents all the appearance of a nerveless and broken-down coward.