"That's easy. I tell, then you tell," Rangoon grinned. "Makin' a sort o' game of it, eh? Wal, yesterday I seen smoke comin' outen the treetops. I wondered who was campin' here, but couldn't git away from the Basin tuh see. I rid up tuhday an' found some downright interestin' footprints. Now it's yore turn tuh tell jest what they mean."
"And then you'll let me leave here?"
"Talk first."
"I used to ride up this way before I went to school. I came up yesterday and found a friendly Indian camped here."
"Why?"
"How do I know?"
"Yuh rid up here twice."
Penny hadn't credited Rangoon with such skill at reading signs.
"Yes, I came up twice."
"The redskin had two horses with him. What about 'em?"