"He's been a good mate, and a true, and I ain't going to put you bloodhounds on his scent.

He's gone a-wooing, that's where he's gone, and that won't help you much." Reuben at once went outside, and called the settlers round him.
"I am sorry to say," he said, "that the leader of the party has got away.

He rode off yesterday morning, and although the prisoner we have taken did not say where he has gone, I have not the least doubt he has ridden back to the Donalds, to try and carry out his threat to return for Miss Ellison.
"Therefore, gentlemen, may I ask you to start homeward, at once.
The horses have only done a few miles and, if we press forward, we may manage to get to our camp of the evening before last.

We have no more to do here, except to see if there are any valuables hidden in the huts, and set fire to them.
"I expect that we shall have fighting with the blacks, on our way back.

Those parties the two fellows who got away went to fetch will, likely enough, bar our way.