"What can we do if there are a whole crowd of them?" questioned Si, in sudden dismay. "We can't fight half a dozen with only one rifle and this old hoss pistol of mine."
"If they are too many for us we can follow them on the sly until we come to some place where we can git help, Si. Anybody who is honest will help us to run 'em down."
They went on as before, and in quarter of an hour came to another clearing, long and narrow, and not far from the bank of the stream, which seemed to wind in and out through the forest. Here they got a fairly good look at the turnout ahead of them.
"It is our outfit, sure enough!" declared Si.
"Yes, and the driver is licking old Darling hard," added Maybe Dixon. "They are bound to git away with the turnout if they can!"
CHAPTER XV
A SNAKE, A DEER, AND A SURPRISE
Let us now return to Bob and Mark at the time they found themselves lost in the mighty forest.
For several minutes the two youths stared around them in great perplexity, not knowing what to do next.