"He was driven on ahead, or hanging on their flanks.

These Injins are betwixt us and that ar train, or following it." Peyton made a hurried gesture of warning, as if reminding the speaker of Clarence's presence--a gesture which the boy noticed and wondered at.

Then the conversation of the three men took a lower tone, although Clarence distinctly heard the concluding opinion of the expert.
"It ain't no good now, Mr.Peyton, and you'd be only exposing yourself on their ground by breakin' camp agin to-night.

And you don't know that it ain't US they're watchin'.

You see, if we hadn't turned off the straight road when we got that first scare from these yer lost children, we might hev gone on and walked plump into some cursed trap of those devils.