In time we came to the place where we had left our party, and it was easy enough to pick up their road.

They had travelled slowly, keeping to the thickest trees, and they had taken no pains to cover their tracks, for they had argued that if trouble came it would come from the front, and that it was little likely that any Indian would be returning thus soon and could take up their back trail.
Presently we came to a place where the bold spurs of the hills overhung us, and the gap we had seen opened up into a deep valley.

Shalah went in advance, and suddenly we heard a word pass.

We entered a cedar glade, to find our four companions unsaddling the horses and making camp.
The sight of the girl held them staring.

Grey grew pale and then flushed scarlet.