What do you think ?" "It's impossible to say," Mr.Fitzgibbon replied.

"It seems to me that we have been going straight, but when one can't see a yard before one one may have turned any direction." "How long do you think that this rascally fog is likely to last ?" "It may clear up as the sun gets high, sir, but I must acknowledge that it may last for days.

There is never any saying among these hills." "Well, at any rate you must give up all idea of making a raid on this still, Mr.Fitzgibbon.That has become a secondary object altogether now.

What we have to do is to find our way out of this.

Hitherto I have tried what we could do in silence.