"I wouldn't. Keep on until the horses won't go any farther."
"All right, if you think best."
On they went again for a half hour more, and Ted was beginning to believe it was folly to go any farther when his pony stumbled and almost fell.
In front of them loomed a darkness more intense than before.
Ted scrambled from the back of his pony and led it forward. The pony had stumbled over the horse block at the very door of the Long Tom ranch house.
CHAPTER II.
THE LONG TOM RANCH.
Ted and Stella raised such a shout that Carl pulled his horses up just in time to keep them from trying to climb upon the veranda.
With the aid of his searchlight Ted had found the door and entered the house, followed by Stella.