"
"I was shore you would," said the shiftless one quietly. "Buffaloes are
big game, but we're huntin' bigger now."
"I was never in this part of the country before," said Tom Ross, looking
around curiously at the ghostly tree trunks.
"I've been through here," said Henry, "and it runs on in the same way for
hundreds of miles in every direction."
"Bigger an' finer than any o' them old empires that Paul used to tell us
about," said Shif'less Sol.
"Yes," said Henry.
The three looked at one another significantly.
They wrapped themselves in their blankets by and by, and went to sleep on
the soft turf. Henry was the first to awake, just when the dawn was
turning from pink to red, and a single glance revealed to him an object on
the horizon that had not been there the night before. A man stood on the
crest of a low hill, and even at the distance, Henry recognized him. His
comrades were awaking and he turned to them.
"See!" he said, pointing with a long forefinger.
Their eyes followed, and they too recognized the man.
"He'll be here in a minute," said Shif'less Sol. "He jest eats up space."
He spoke the truth, as it seemed scarcely a minute before Long Jim Hart
entered the camp, showing no sign of fatigue.
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