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"Of course There isn't a Groliues in any direction Did you find the ones you were looking for?"
"They weren't hard to follow," Wolf answered "They're staying in a cave about three leagues deeper into the forest Another one of them died on their way back there, and a coupleThe rest of thes turned out"
"I can i?"
He nodded "There's a es nearby atches the road and lets the"
"Then they're just ordinary thieves?"
"Not exactly They atching for us in particular We'd all been described to theo talk to this villager," she said griestive manner
"It's not worth the tihtfully at his beard "All he'd be able to tell you is that soold Grolis"
"We should attend to hi behind us, trying to buy up every brigand in Arendia to send after us"
"After to," Wolf replied with a short laugh "His friends plan to lure hi and cut his throat for his"
"Good I'd like to knoho the Grolied "What difference does it make? There are dozens of the up asas well as we do We can't expect them to just sit back and let us pass"
"Shouldn't we put a stop to it?"
"We don't have the tis to Arends If we h, maybe we can slip by before the Grolims are ready"
"And if we can't?"
"Then we'll do it the other way I've got to get to Zedar before he crosses into Cthol Murgos If too et in my way, I'll have to be , father So to start that again? That's always your answer to everything, Polgara You're forever fixing things that would fix thes when they don't have to be changed"
"Don't be cross, father Help ested
"Don't be absurd"
Garion slipped away a violently as he went
When Aunt Pol and Mister Wolf returned to the clearing, they roused the others "I think we'd better move on," Wolf told thehway, and I'd like to get past this particular stretch of woods"
The disht's enca the woodcutter's track toward the Great West Road Though it was still soht with h a shining cloud that had settled ahway and turned south again
"I'd like to be a good way from here when the sun comes up," Wolf said quietly, "but we don't want to blunder into anything, so keep your eyes and ears open"