The dew is dried that drenched our hide Or washed about our way; And where we drank, the puddled bank Is crisping into clay.

If he […] were to loiter dubitating, and not come.

a smudged chalk drawing

Meanwhile, the thick plottens. It involves renegade US Treasury agents, vast amounts of money, lots of gunplay, crashing and exploding planes and the capture of Hal by a gang of serious ne'er-do-wells …