He'll come down to the landing after us." He found the missionary hurrying along the bank, and stopping him, sat down.
"Driscoll's gone; we did our best to pick him up," he remarked and related what had happened.

"We may find him in the tail-pool to-morrow, but I imagine he'll be washed away down river, like his victim." "Then you think Strange was his victim ?" "I can't doubt it now.

But how did Steve get out of the shack ?" "Perhaps that was my fault, but he had been delirious for a day and night; and in the afternoon, when he was calmer, I went to sleep.

One is apt to sleep too long when one is tired.

When I wakened he was not in bed and a whisky bottle I had taken from him was nearly empty.