"I think we have reproduced Simon Moultrie's map closely
enough to tell us about where we are and where we've got to go."
"Are we still going on?" inquired Fred.
"Of course we are going on," declared Grant. "We'll start just as soon as
the others join us. Look yonder!" he said, abruptly leaping to his feet
as he spoke and pointing to a distant spot on the side of the Gulch.
"There's something moving over there."
CHAPTER XIX
A JOYOUS RETURN
Keenly excited, the three boys instantly arose and advanced nearer the rim
of the Gulch. Around the bend of the next great buttress or projection
they saw two forms moving slowly which they instantly recognized as men.
"That's Zeke and Thomas Jefferson!" exclaimed Grant in a low voice.
"What has become of the other two men?" inquired George.
"You'll have to ask them,--or Zeke and T.J.; perhaps they will be able to
tell you something after they get back here."
Grant's surmise proved to be correct. Within a half-hour both Zeke and the
Indian returned to the camp.
Neither was willing to describe the details of very much of his effort to
overtake the two white men who had gone from the camp.
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