“Judy, are you positive that your information is correct?” asked Grace in a voice well under control.
“Ain’t positive of nothin’. Be you?”
Grace shook her head and smiled faintly.
“Mr. Bindloss, of course we shall have to go. None of us can stay back now. Judy, will you guide us to the Red Gulch section?”
“That’s what I’m heah for, Miss Gray. I reckoned as you’d be doin’ jest that. If I had a man I’ll bet I’d hit the trail fer him when I heard he was in a mess. How did yours ever git up to Red Gulch?”
“He followed the pigeons,” answered Grace.
“A-huh!”
Joe Bindloss, at this juncture, announced his intention of accompanying the Overlanders into the mountains. He did not know where Red Gulch was, but if Judy said she knew, that settled it. The girls brightened at his suggestion, and Nora sat up pale and trembling, asking what had happened.
She was told that she had fainted. Grace turned to Judy and asked if they were to start at once, but the mountain girl shook her head.
“We got to wait till night and make a night ride,” she said. “Pap Bindloss knows why.”