"Why?"
"I'm afraid it's a trap, and that you'll fall into it."
"We'll never find out what it is if we don't go out there."
"That's a cinch, and that's just what they want you to do."
"Well, I'm going."
Kit knew that when Ted said anything in the tone of voice he had just used he meant it, and that it was useless to argue with him.
"All right, go as far as you like," he said. "I'll keep my eye on you, and if anything happens I'll sound the warning."
Stella and the other members of the Moon Valley outfit were resting against the time when they would be called to duty, and only Kit was there to see Ted catch Sultan out of the corral, saddle him, and ride away.
Ted rode slowly across the prairie to where he had seen the wolf.
But the wolf had disappeared from view just as Ted started from the corral, and Kit could see it no more. He took this for a bad omen. Evidently, the wolf had seen that he had lured a rider from the ranch house, and, having accomplished its purpose, it was no longer necessary to expose itself to attack.