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ly east as we can, and let's be off." Turning their backs upon the sun, they began retracing their steps; but they had journeyed scarce half an hour when they found themselves near a range of hills, which they were sure they had not passed through, and did not remember to have seen. "What does this mean?" asked Howard, still more alarmed. "We never have been near these." "Are they not the hills we noticed just us we were about starting?" "They cannot be;--these are larger, have not half as much wood upon them. I tell you, Elwood, there is one thing sure." "I know what you mean." "What is it?" _"We are lost!"_ [Illustration: "We are lost."] "You are right. We may find Tim again, but we are going to have trouble to do it." "Listen! He may call to us." They stopped walking find held their breath, but not a sound broke the solemn stillness, save a faint, hollow roar--whether the deep murmur that is always heard in a great forest, or the sound of the distant Pacific Ocean they could not tell. "No; he is asleep yet," said Elwood. "If he would only wake up he would shout to us." "Thus you see, if we shoot our guns, the chances are that _he_ will not hear it, while it may be the means of bringing to us the very ones we are so anxious to keep away." So they concluded not to fire their rifles for the present. "But these hills," continued Howard, "they don't extend in any great direction either north or south. The question now is, shall we pass around the northern or southern end?" "What difference will it make?" "All the difference in the world. If Tim is to the south of us, and we pass around that way, I think we shall find him without much hunting, while if we take the wrong course it will be night before we can get anywhere near him." "I see," replied Elwood. "We shall have to guess at it. But, hold!" he exclaimed, with sparkling eyes. "You go one way and I will another!" Howard shook his head. "There is too much risk." "Not at all. The distance is short, and we can whistle to each other every few minutes. Then, you know, as we shall be looking for each other, we cannot lose ourselves in these still woods. The minute I get sight of the river I can tell whether we are above or below Tim." Howard would not consent at first, but his cousin set forth the advantages of the plan so eloquently that he finally agreed. Arranging their signals and manner of proceeding, the boys, theref
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