Conley heard them running for their lives.
Assassins had been stationed along the road to head them off, however.
The man who had his place near the horses, got Roon. The chances are
that Paul did not accompany Roon to the meeting place up the road. He
remained near the horses. That's how he managed to get away so
quickly. It remained for the man at the cross-roads to settle with
him. But, we're wasting time with all this twaddle of mine. Let us be
moving. There is one point on which we must all agree. The deadliest
marksmen in the world fired those shots. No bungling on that score,
bedad."
In course of time, the party, traversing the ground contiguous to the
public road, came within sight of the green dwelling among the trees.
Barnes's interest revived. He had, from the outset, appreciated the
futility of the search for clues in the territory they had covered.
The searchers were incapable of conducting a scientific examination.
It was work for the most skilful, the most practised, the most
untiring of tracers. His second view of the house increased his wonder
and admiration. If O'Dowd had not actually located it among the trees
for him, he would have been at a loss to discover it, although it was
immediately in front of him and in direct line of vision.
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