“I’m not, stranger.”
“It seems to me they’re firing pretty often outside,” remarked the young man.
“Yes. I must go and see. Your friends are only wasting powder.”
As Bill Harkness left the place Mainwaring saw a man brought into the cave, evidently badly wounded.
“That doesn’t look like wasting powder,” he muttered to himself, taking care not to be overheard.
CHAPTER XXVII.
A HARD TASK.
It is now time to go outside and see how Buffalo Bill and his crowd get along.
When the trail was taken, Buffalo Bill in the lead, Steve Hathaway following, the horses of the whole party were put to their full speed. For Buffalo Bill argued that to save the life of Mainwaring and the honor of those helpless girls, they must not give those white ruffians any time to rest or to think.