“A girl?” demanded Walter.
“What was her name?” asked Ned.
“Ethel Norton,” replied Sam Hutchinson. “And I haven’t even the smallest idea where she or my brother is now.”
CHAPTER XIII
THE PLOTTERS ONCE MORE
For a moment after the statement by Sid Hutchinson, the two boys and Crockett looked at each other in wonder.
“Well,” said the colonel, finally, “it’s like finding a needle in a haystack, boys; but we’ve found it—all by chance.”
In a few words Walter had told young Hutchinson the necessary facts of his hunt for Ethel Norton; and Sid looked amazed.
“Well, look at that!” said he. “Did you ever hear anything like it before!”
“But tell us what’s happened,” urged Ned Chandler. “How did the Mexicans come to get you?”
The boy got upon his feet.