"
"He may have come back," suggested Grant.
"That's true," said Fred thoughtfully. "I hadn't thought of that. Thomas
Jefferson," he added as the young Navajo now approached the place where
the two Go Ahead Boys were standing, "what do you make of this?"
"All three gone," replied the Indian.
"We know that already," replied Fred sharply, "but we don't know where
they have gone nor why nor who. What time was it," he demanded of Grant,
"when you first found this out?"
"About ten minutes ago when I first waked up."
"I saw one of the men leaving," Fred explained, "but I haven't any idea
what time it was. It was in the night sometime."
"Did he go alone?" inquired the Indian.
"Yes," Fred answered.
"In which direction did he go?" asked the Navajo.
Fred pointed to his right and without a word the young Navajo instantly
ran to that side of the camp and began to inspect closely the footprints
of the men who had gone.
In a brief time he returned and said simply, "No two of the men went
together. The man with the scar went first. If the man you saw did not
have any pack then it was the short man that took it.
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