“He seems mighty glad to see you,” Joe remarked as he stepped into the open.
“Yes,” Douglas answered dryly, keenly eyeing his friend.
“What’s the matter?” Farley laughed. “Did you sleep so long you let the meat burn up? A purty cook you’d make.”
“The meat’s cooking nicely,” Ross interrupted. “But why did you leave it? What are you doing down here?”
“Jest stepped down here to take a squint ’round an’ see if I could find anything o’ the Injin.”
“Bright Wing?”
“Yes.”
“Where is he?”
“I don’t know no more’n the man in the moon. When I woke up an hour ago he was gone. You was sleepin’ so good I didn’t want to wake you. So I hung up the chunk o’ venison, started a fire under it, an’ come down here to see what I could see. After a little while the dog follered me.”