Of course he and Andy had done considerable moving about in all directions since first coming to Arizona, so that Frank already had a pretty fair knowledge of the vicinity. But with the glasses to help out, he hoped to be in a position to discover several things.
“Get busy, Andy, and see what you can glimpse,” he remarked, after they had succeeded in mounting upward to a considerable distance.
“I’ve already sighted Charley Woo,” replied the other.
“I hope then he’s going right along,” remarked Frank, anxiously, for his attention had to be confined almost exclusively to the working of the aeroplane, and on this account he must depend on his chum to tell him what was happening.
“Oh!” Andy hastened to reply, “he’s still hanging to Joe’s cayuse like a flea, and as far as I can see, whooping it up at the liveliest pace ever. But I’m looking away beyond him to find out if I can see the boys.”
“Well, how about it?” asked the other.
“Wait till we swing around again, and I’ll tell you.”
They were by now high enough to afford quite an extended view in every direction. Frank’s eyes had sought the south whenever he had a chance to take them for a second or two from his work; but Andy was leveling the glasses in almost an opposite quarter.
“There! I’ve just glimpsed a lot of small objects moving this way and that,” he announced suddenly, “which I take it are cattle, with the punchers rushing them wherever they want. But they’re a whole heap of miles away, Frank. Guess they see us by now, and expect we’re going to sail up that way. Perhaps they’ll wonder to watch us turn right around and go off to the south. Is it really necessary, Frank? Couldn’t we run up there and let them know?”
“What would be the use?” returned his cousin. “They could never catch Jose, mounted on their ponies, and him with all that start. Why, I’m only afraid he’ll be able to cross over into Mexico before we get up with him, for all our swiftness with our humming motor. And minutes are apt to count big in this game, Andy, so I say we’d better not lose any time running over there, and then going down to let them know what’s happened. Charley Woo is on the job, and he’ll get there sooner or later with the news.”