"Oh, I don't want to!" she exclaimed.
"Oh, come on!" urged Teddy. "It isn't moving. Maybe you can tell what it is."
Janet, making sure that Star Face was all right, walked over to her brother. She, too, saw the dark object lying on a bare spot in the prairie. It did not move. The moonlight became stronger and Janet, becoming brave all of a sudden, went closer.
"It's nothing but a bundle, Teddy Martin!" she exclaimed. "Somebody has dropped a bundle."
"They have?" Teddy cried. "Then if somebody's been past here they can find us—or we can find them—and we aren't lost anymore!"
"Oh, I hope it comes true!" sighed Janet.
"Here, you hold Clipclap—he's starting to walk away"—went on Teddy, "and I'll go see what that is."
Janet took the pony's reins, and her brother walked toward the bundle. He could see now that it was something wrapped in a blanket, and as he came closer he saw that the blanket was one of the kind the cowboys at Uncle Frank's ranch carried when they went out to spend the night on the prairie.
"What is it?" asked Janet, as her brother picked up the bundle and came back toward her.
"I don't know, but it's heavy," he answered. "Well open it."