If we set him on the general's trail he will run him down if he had to follow him to John o' Groat's." "It is terrible to wait calmly here while he may need our assistance." "I fear our assistance could under any circumstances do him little good.

There are forces at work here which are beyond human intervention.
Besides, there is no alternative.

We have, apparently, no possible clue as to the direction which they have taken, and for us to wander aimlessly over the moor in the darkness would be to waste the strength which may be more profitably used in the morning.

It will be daylight by five o'clock.

In an hour or so we can walk over the hill together and get Fullarton's dog." "Another hour!" Mordaunt groaned, "every minute seems an age." "Lie down on the sofa and rest yourself," said I."You cannot serve your father better than by laying up all the strength you can, for we may have a weary trudge before us.