The Cub leader told the boys that the Indian pow-wow definitely had been set for the following Saturday.
“That doesn’t give us much time,” Brad said anxiously. “Think you can get the sand painting finished in time, Dan?”
“Tomorrow night probably.”
Feeling that not an hour should be wasted, Dan called Midge and Chips and the three again went to work.
On the east side of the picture, Dan made a circle to represent the sun, filling it in with colored sand.
He was hard at work when Brad called to say that the other Cubs were hiking to the cliff to see if any more work had been done on the carved face.
Chips and Midge, tired of working on the sand design, quickly joined those who were leaving with Mr. Hatfield and Mr. Holloway.
“Coming, Dan?” the Cub leader called to him.
“No, go on without me,” Dan answered, absorbed in the sand painting. “I want to get this thing finished before we leave here tonight.”
“Sure you don’t want to come along?”