I said the thray, of course, and that was the rason why they had gone off by themselves." "You were right, then, of course." "Yes, and when I answered, Soot, he just laughed kind o' soft like, and said that that was the very rason why he did not believe you was with the thray.

He remarked that Lone Wolf was a mighty sharp old spalpeen.
He knowed that Soot would be coming on his trail, and he divided up his party so as to bother him.

Anybody would be apt to think just the same as I did--that the boy would be sent to the Injun town in charge of the little party, while the others went on to hatch up some deviltry.

Lone Wolf knowed enough to do that, and he had therefore kept the laddy with the big company, meaning that his old friend, the scout, should go on a fool's errand.
"That's the way Soot rasoned, you see, and that's where he missed it altogether.

He wasn't ready for both of us to take the one trail, so it was agreed that we should also divide into two parties--he going after the big company and I after the small one, he figuring out that, by so doing, he would get all the heavy work to do, and I would n't any, and there is where he missed it bad.