I need not say keep
together, and, if attacked, light a blue-light and throw it down;
ride a short way out of its circle of light, and I will come
straight to you through everything. Don't be nervous about me.
There is not the least danger."
In another minute the boys lost sight of their father, and turning
their horses proceeded in the direction he had ordered. Every now
and then they stopped to listen, but not a sound could they hear.
Their own horses' hoofs made no noise as they fell upon the soft
turf.
At the end of the ten minutes, just as Charley was thinking of
stopping, they heard a sound which caused them to halt
simultaneously. It was the low baa of a sheep, and seemed to come
from directly ahead of them. Charley now alighted, and Hubert
brought his horse up beside him, keeping his place, however, in the
saddle, but leaning forward on the neck of his horse, for he felt
that if he got off he should be unable to regain his seat hurriedly
in case of alarm.
"About a mile off, I should say, by the sound," Charley whispered;
"and just in the direction we expected."
The spot Charley had chosen for the halt was a slight hollow,
running east and west; so that, even had the moon been up, they
would not have been visible except to any one in the line of the
hollow.
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