The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 6 Page 5

You see what to do; make yourself look as if you came from my part of the world.” Thryng glanced at his watch. “Work fast, but take time enough to do it well. Say half an hour, — will that do?”

“Yas, I reckon.”

Then David left him, and the moments passed until an hour had slipped away, but still the youth did not appear, and he was on the point of calling out to him, when he saw the twisted form of little Hoyle scrambling up through the underbrush.

“They’re comin’,” he panted, with wild and frightened eyes fixed on David’s face. “I see ‘em up the road, an’ I heered ‘em say they was goin’ to hunt ‘round the house good, an’ then s’arch the cabin ovah Hanging Rock.”