It looks ez ef we couldn't
find anything, so we'd better wait an' see what will find us."
"It looks like the best plan to me," said Henry, " but I think we
might first hunt a while on the other side of the creek. We
haven't looked any over there."
"That's so," replied Shif'less Sol, "but the water is at least
seven feet deep here, an' we don't want to make any splash
swimmin'. Suppose you go up stream, an' I go down, an' the one
that finds a ford first kin give a signal. One uv us ought to
strike shallow water in three or four hundred yards."
Henry followed the current toward the south, while Sol moved up
the stream. The boy went cautiously through the dense foliage,
and the creek soon grew wider and shallower. At a distance of
about three hundred yards lie came to a point where it could be
waded easily. Then he uttered the low cry that was their signal,
and went back to meet Shif'less Sol. He reached the exact point
at which they had parted, and waited. The shiftless one did not
come. The last of his comrades was gone, and he was alone in the
forest.
CHAPTER III
THE HUT ON THE ISLET
Henry Ware waited at least a quarter of an hour by the creek on
the exact spot at which he and Solomon Hyde, called the shiftless
one, had parted, but he knew all the while that his last comrade
was not coming.
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