Jason saluted quickly.
“Where are the reinforcements?”
“I did not find them.”
“But—did I not tell you to find them?” began the colonel, angrily.
“Easy, colonel,” said Jason, respectfully. “I think I have done a better thing, sir.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s a good ways to the fort. You might be cut to pieces before I could return. I have found an avenue by which I think we can escape.”
Clark’s manner changed instantly.
“You don’t mean it?” he exclaimed, excitedly. “What is it?”
Jason drew nearer and lowered his voice in a mysterious manner.