"This doesn't seem to be such a very uninhabited place, after all.

I'm sure we've had a regular job lot of visitors during the past week, and a good many of them, too.

So I don't see why we shouldn't have other callers before the winter is over.

When the next one comes, though, we'll take care and not let him out of our sight.

Why didn't you tie a string to one of those Indians, as I advised ?" "Because they tied me first," answered White, laughing in spite of his anxiety.