human
The only clue I had was that he was at Chihuahua, and at work at something, I didn't know what, and I thought likely he was _pasearing_ around under an assumed name, which he was. I nosed around for two days, layin' low and keepin' mighty quiet, and you better guess I made a quick scoot through Juarez, too.
gpt
I sure thought, Nick, that you'd never get back alive, for I knew you-all must have gone off some place you'd no business to go alone, and I'd have started off on a blind hunt for you in another day.