It was well we moved." They increased their southward pace, and when it was scarcely two hours to the dawn Henry said: "I know of a good place in which to rest, and a still better place in which to fight if they should find us." "Where ?" "Holt's lone cabin.

It's less than half a mile from here.

I've had it in mind." Paul did not know what he meant by Holt's lone cabin, but he was always willing to trust Henry without questions.

His imagination, flowering at once into splendor, depicted it as some kind of an impregnable fortress.
"Come, we mustn't lose time!" said Henry, and he suddenly increased his speed, running so fast that Paul had much to do to keep pace with him.
Paul looked up, and he saw why Henry hastened.

The black curtain was rolled back a little in the east, and a splendid bar of gray appeared just at the horizon's edge.