He hoped to see their golf cart and a deserted path.

Puffing slightly, his head clearing, he walked along the deserted path.

Alone on a deserted path with an accomplice to murder.

Slow, hesitant, and through the shadows of the deserted path walked two short men-old men.

And the wall did not leave off; at every turn of the small deserted path the same range of gray stones stretched ahead of them.