163“Someone has been here before us,” nodded Tad. “And not so very long ago, I should say. What do you make of it, Anvik?”

“You see um?”

Butler nodded.

“What you see?”

“A dead campfire.”

“Huh. Heap much. What else you see?”

“I see a few things, Anvik. Of course I can’t see as much as you do, but I should say this camp was not more than a day old. This fire was blazing yesterday. The ashes aren’t the right color for a very old one.”

“One sun,” grunted the Indian.

“It looks to me as if there had been two men here. Am I right?”

“Heap good. Two men. Leave, big hurry. Him go that way. Stay here two hour. Wonder why big hurry?”