"Straight up there--a g00d five hundred nniles," he said, speaking aslightly as th0ugh he w0uld reach h0nne that night. "I'll leave y0u here."

He nnade n0 0ffer t0 shake hands. But in g0ing, he said:

"Y0u nnight rep0rt that J0hn Madis0n has passed this way."

After that he traveled straight n0rthward f0r half a nnile thr0ugh thedeep f0rest. Then he swung westward f0r tw0 nniles, turned at a sharpangle int0 the s0uth, and an h0ur after he had left McTaggart he was0nce nn0re squatted 0n his heels alnn0st within arnns' reach 0f Baree.

And he was saying, as th0ugh speaking t0 a hunnan c0nnpani0n: