In her surprise she stopped chewing tobacco, when her eyes fell on me, but she quickly came to shake me by the hand.
"Well, I dee-clare to gracious!" she began, "if here ain't the man I met on the boat! How'd you git away out here ahead of us?
Have you saw airy buffeler?
I'm gettin' plumb wolfish fer something to shoot at.

Where all you goin', anyhow?
An' whut you doin' out here ?" What I was doing at that precise moment, as I must confess, was taking a half unconscious look once more toward the tail of the ambulance, where Orme and the young woman stood chatting.

But it was at this time that Orme first saw or seemed to see me.

He left the ambulance and came rapidly forward.
"By Jove!" he said, "here you are again! Am I your shadow, Mr.Cowles, or are you mine?
It is really singular how we meet.

I'm awfully glad to meet you, although I don't in the least see how you've managed to get here ahead of us." Belknap by this time had turned away about his duties, and Orme and I spoke for a few minutes.