He gave the men no further attention, for he did not suspect the new-comer had anything to impart of interest to him.

The boy felt more like resenting this interference with the momentous business he and the guide had on hand.
But Jack was mistaken.

Hardly was he a hundred feet from the couple when Hazletine asked: "What's up, Bill ?" "One of them young tenderfeet is missing, eh ?" "How did you find that out ?" "I reached the camp of Bok-kar-oo last night within a half-hour after you'd gone; he and two other bucks are out on a hunt, which they haven't any business to be, but that's nothing to us.

Bok-kar-oo told me what you had told him; it's queer business, isn't it ?" "I should say it was.

That Motoza has had a hand in it, and I've set out to find him and settle the account." "Why are you so sure about Motoza ?" "'Cause I _know_ him!" said Hank, savagely; "and I've knowed him fur a good many years; there isn't a worse Injin in Wyoming." Instead of commenting on this remark, Tozer stood silent a moment, and then made a flirt with his head as a request for Hank to step aside with him.