"We mustn't waste any time.

What about the store-keeper's horses ?" "Ho! it'd never do to take them straight back again," said Tommy.

"Never do.

They must have a spell.

Besides, what's the hurry ?" And Hugh, recognising that for all the good he could do he might just as well not hurry back again, resigned himself to the inevitable, picked up his bridle, went into the shuffling herd of horses, and caught the one pointed out to him.