“That’s all right. But we haven’t got but one horse——”
“I was thinking of that.”
“And your thoughts?”
“We can’t both ride this horse, good as he is, all the way to Fort Resistence.”
“Right again!”
“One of us must push on for help about as fast as the horse can go.”
“Sure.”
“There isn’t much danger of the reds following us far, for their ponies aren’t to be compared with this fellow—and they all know what he can do.”
“Well?”
“Then you’d better let me go on, as soon as we come to the creek ahead and shape ourselves up a bit, and you can scout around until I return with help from Fort Resistence.”