"Yes, but we must go fast to catch the thief," answered Hawk Eye. "We must gain a point of vantage on the bank ahead of him. Once there, we can lay plans to recover our stolen canoes."
CHAPTER XIII
THE BOYS ARE TAKEN PRISONERS
The sun set and it set again. Raven Wing and Hawk Eye pushed on across the prairie toward the Minnesota River. They had left the trail and were veering toward the north.
"It would not be wise to make the great ford called by the white men Sioux," Hawk Eye had said. "We must come at a fair distance from there down the river to a point where the banks are high and the timber heavy."
"We will continue to journey through the night until the river is in sight," answered Raven Wing.
Hawk Eye grunted in assent. Once only did they pause for water at a spring in the midst of a clump of cottonwood trees.