"Have you any news?" asked Bob.
"No," and the old miner looked much discouraged.
"We have," went on the former sailor lad.
The face of Maybe Dixon brightened considerably when he heard the news they had to tell.
"I'll go after Andy West myself," he said. "I'll get some of the other men to help us too. That gang has either got to be captured or wiped out."
As late as it was he set off to the gulch settlement, going down on muleback. He rode with all possible speed, and burst in on the West family as they were sitting down to supper.
"I want you to take us over to Five Falls at once," he said to Mr. West.
"What's up?" asked Andrew West in astonishment.
"We have been robbed and the thieves have gone to that place, so we have learned. Can you show us where it is?"
"Certainly."