102/118 The meeting was so unexpected they shed tears and quietly led the way back to camp. This was the camp of R.G.Moody and H.C.Skinner, with their families. They had traveled together on the Platte and became well acquainted, the warmest of friends, and knowing that Bennett had taken the cut off, they more than suspected he and his party had been lost, as no sight of them had come to their eyes. They had been waiting here six weeks in order to get some reliable news, and now Mr.Bennet answered for himself. Rogers and I, belonging to another party, were of course strangers. |