But it had no echo in Repton's reply.
"I know.

That makes everything so much worse." "What do you mean ?" "Ballantyne was found in the morning outside the tent stone-cold.

But no one had heard the shot, and there were sentries on the edge of the encampment.

He had been dragged outside after he was dead or when he was dying." A low cry broke from Thresk.

The weak point became of a sudden the most deadly, the most terrible element in the whole case.