"
"How do you know they didn't go together?" inquired Grant.
"I can see their footprints. If they had gone together they would have
walked side by side or one would have been directly behind the other. That
is not the way it is."
"But how do you know that the scarred man went first?"
"Because I find a place where Zeke crossed over from one side of the way
to the other. He stepped in the footprint of the other man in one place.
Zeke's foot is bigger so I'm sure it was his print. He could not step on
the other's footprint unless he was behind him."
"But what makes you think that they both went before the man that Fred
saw?"
"Because that man did not have a pack. The pack is gone."
"But I don't see how that proves they went before. They may have left
after the other man."
The Navajo shook his head, however, and said, "They go first."
"What are we to do now?" demanded George as he joined his companions.
"The first thing we want is some breakfast and then we'll decide what next
to do," said Grant, who in spite of Fred's greater readiness to talk, now
naturally assumed the place of the leader of the three Go Ahead Boys.
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