Frona waved her hand to Andy and swung out on the trail.

Fastened tightly to her back were her camera and a small travelling satchel.

In addition, she carried for alpenstock the willow pole of Neepoosa.

Her dress was of the mountaineering sort, short-skirted and scant, allowing the greatest play with the least material, and withal gray of color and modest.
Her outfit, on the backs of a dozen Indians and in charge of Del Bishop, had got under way hours before.

The previous day, on her return with Matt McCarthy from the Siwash camp, she had found Del Bishop at the store waiting her.