He surmised that it contained fish good to eat, but, for the present he was content to let them remain in the water.

They, like the wild cattle, could wait.
Feeling that he had been gone long enough, he went back to the house and found the slaver asleep or in a stupor, and, when he looked at him closely, he was convinced that it was more stupor than sleep.

He was very pale and much wasted.

It occurred suddenly to Robert that the man would die and the thought gave him a great shock.

Then, in very truth, he would be alone.