They were to wait for him when they had reached the horses.

So they separated for a space.
"This is sure a great country for hideouts, Mr.Birnie," Eddie ventured when they had put half a mile between themselves and Little Lost, and had come upon Smoky, Sunfish and Eddie's horse feeding quietly in a tiny, spring-watered basin half surrounded with rocks.

"If you know the country you can keep dodgin' sheriffs all your life--if you just have grub enough to last." "Looks to me as if there aren't many wasted opportunities here," Bud answered with some irony.

"Is there an honest man in the whole country, Ed?
I'd just like to know." Eddie hesitated, his eyes anxiously trying to read Bud's meaning and his mood.

"Not right around the Sinks, I guess," he replied truthfully.