You were heading south when you separated from Verneille, Grenfell ?" "About south.

I can't be sure." "That," observed the surveyor, "may mean anything between southeast and southwest; and if we take the spot where you found your partner afterward, and make a sweep with a forty-mile radius, which is what we've concluded was the distance he probably covered, it gives us quite a big tract of country to search.

Still, we ought to find a lake that's a mile or two across." Weston laughed softly.
"It's my third attempt, and I don't know how often Grenfell has tried.
One could almost fancy that the lake has vanished.

That sounds a little absurd, doesn't it ?" "Well," said Devine, with an air of reflection, "we won't admit that it's an impossibility.

If you can take that for granted, it simplifies the thing." Grenfell, who lay with his back against a fir trunk, roused himself suddenly.
"I never thought of it in that way," he said.