like he was watching me. But I knowed I could tire him out at that.

I went straight out in the country as much as a mile before I stopped; then I doubled back through the woods towards Phelps’s. I reckoned I better start in on my plan straight off without fooling around, because I wanted to stop Jim’s mouth till these fellows could get away. I didn’t want no trouble with their kind. I’d seen all I wanted to of them, and wanted to get entirely shut of them.