"All right. But don't go too fast," Janet would answer, and they would trot off, the ponies going as fast as was safe for the children.
Teddy generally won these races, for Janet, who was very tender-hearted, did not like to make her pony go as fast as it could go. Often, perhaps, if Janet had urged Star Face on she would have beaten her brother, for Clipclap still felt a little weak, now and then, from his illness.
One day a cowboy came in, riding hard from a far-off part of the ranch.
"I guess something is the matter, Jan," said Teddy, as they saw the horseman gallop past.
"What?" she asked as they noticed him talking to the foreman.
"Maybe he's found the Indians that took Uncle Frank's horses," her brother answered.
The children drew near enough to hear what the cowboy and the foreman were talking about.
"More horses gone!" exclaimed Jim Mason. "Well, we'll surely have to get after those Indians; that's all there is about it!"
"More horses stolen?" asked Daddy Martin, coming out just then.
"Yes," answered Jim Mason. "A lot of good ones. I guess more Indians must have run away from the reservation. We'll have to hunt them down!"