Do you see ?" "No, father; I don't quite understand.

Do you mean you want to ride on to the Bluff, and yet don't want to because it may only be a scare ?" "Exactly.

And if I did decide for us to ride on together, these men would take fright and leave the waggon to be plundered." The doctor paused to search the trees again, but all was still.
"Send one of the men, father." "I don't want to weaken my defensive force, boy." "I'd go, father, but I don't know the way," said Nic.
"Yes: you shall go, my boy.

The horse will take you straight to the station as soon as he is well away from his companion; and, look here! the track may prove faint, but do you see that notch in the mountains ?" "Where it looks as if a square piece had been cut out, and a cat's head with its ears standing up ?" "Yes: that notch is the pass through the mountains, and is just about two miles behind our house, which stands on a slope.

You could not miss it." "A wooden house: I know," said the boy; "but are the others at all like it ?" "What others?
There is no other station for miles, boy.