I could not see anything in the dark.

The worst of it is that we shall not be able to do a thing until morning.

That settles our getting started in the morning, for I for one shall not leave here until we have found Washington.

I don't know why they should have taken the boy.

He surely can be of no use to them." "He can give them information, can't he ?" asked Hippy.
"None that will be of use to them." "It is my opinion," spoke up Elfreda, "that they were not after the boy at all, but that his howls made it necessary for them to take him to protect themselves.