"Friend Shrunk evidently is not eager for callers.

Where is that fellow ?" "Somewhere over in that thicket, I think.

At least his voice sounded from there.

You discovered nothing in the boat ?" "Only a rag and some fishing tackle.

Come; we'll have to plunge in somewhere." She followed closely as I pushed a passage through the obstructing underbrush, finally locating Sam at the edge of a small opening, where the light was sufficiently strong to enable us to distinguish marks of a little-used trail leading along the bottom of a shallow gully bisecting the sidehill.