9/22 It is unbearable that we should not come to some understanding. Poor Cecil!" At early dawn they caught up their horses, which had been hobbled with the stirrup leathers, and started afresh. Both were more silent than ever, and the dog, with his nose to the ground, led them slowly along the rocky rib of the mountain, ever going higher and higher. There is Tuckerimbid close to our right, five thousand feet above the river. Don't you think we must be mistaken ?" "The dog disagrees with you," said Cecil. |