“Just foller him. He'll hang round a while, very likely all night, and
when he finds out there's nothing to make here, he'll trot off agin. All
we've got to do is to do the same, and he'll show the way out.”
“It don't look so easy to me,” said Fred, a few minutes later, while he
had been busily turning the scheme over in his mind. “If we only had the
daylight to see him, it wouldn't be so hard, but here he is right close
to us, and it is only now and then that we can tell where he is.”
“Yees are right, for it is n't likely that we can walk right straight
out by the way that he does; but we can larn from his movements pretty
nearly where the place is, and then we can take a torch and hunt for a
day or two, and I don't see how we can miss it.”
There seemed to be reason in this, although the lad could not feel as
sanguine as did his companion. The wolf, as he believed it to be, was
doubtless familiar with every turn of the cave, and, when he was ready
to go, was likely to vanish in a twinkling--skurrying away with a speed
that would defy pursuit. However, there was a promise, or a possibility,
at least, of success, and that certainly was something to be cheerful
over, even though the prospect was not brilliant, and Fred was resolved
that failure should not come through remissness of his.
The continuation of this absorbing story is entitled “The Cave in the
Mountain.”
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of In the Pecos Country, by
Edward Sylvester Ellis (AKA Lieutenant R.H. Jayne)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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