“That’s just what I want to find out; I tell 214 you, I don’t think we ought to stay here, when it’s pretty sure something is wrong at the house; if the Comanches are going to keep this up, it will never do to leave the women alone; I shall have to go back and stay with them.”
“I can’t believe it’s that, but we shall soon know.”
He sprang into the saddle, and the two rode to the elevation which has already been referred to several times.
“I will wait here,” said the elder, checking his animals, “while you ride on to the cabin.”
Avon looked inquiringly at him.
“Don’t you think it best you should go with me?”
“No; I will keep you under my eye all the way; if you see anything out of gear, you need only to signal, and I will fetch two or three of the boys with me.”
It struck the youth as strange that Ballyhoo should stop after starting for the dwelling. The young man had made up his mind there was something wrong there, and it seemed to 215 him like a waste of time for his friend to hold back.
However, he said nothing further in the way of protest, but, speaking briskly to Thunderbolt, sent him off at headlong speed toward the cabin.
“I am afraid this knocks all my plans to smithereens,” he said to himself; “for if there is the least danger of the Comanches putting in their appearance again, it would never do for me to leave home. It is bad enough for uncle to go, but there is no help in his case, while there is in mine.”