By this time he was inside the tepee where he received a welcome fully as warm as Bob's.
"Did you get the stuff?" Jack asked after a bit.
"Oui, I geet heem."
"But what made you gone so long?"
"That can wait, Jack," Bob broke in. "Can't you see he's tired and hungry?" Then, turning to the Indian, he said: "Now you lie down here in your bag and I'll see to the dogs and get you something to eat."
But the Indian would not hear to it insisting that he was all right although he acknowledged that he was pretty hungry.
"Then you see to the dogs and I'll get you something to eat. We got a buck yesterday and I reckon you can get outside a good sized steak."
"Oui, I eat heem ver' quick."
Bob had the steak cooking in almost no time and Lucky declared that it was the best thing he had ever eaten. As soon as he had finished they went inside the tepee where Jack was waiting impatiently.
"Thought you'd never come," he growled.