In an instant the scout was on him, stifling his cries.
“I’ve just been waiting for one of you fellows to come back,” he said, “for I wanted a horse. Now I have one. You will find the sentinel, tied up and gagged, in the side cañon. You’d better see that he is released. And, to make sure that you know just where he is, I will go with you.”
Then, with his revolver keeping the man silent by its threatening, he walked with his prisoner up the gulch and into the little cañon.
When Buffalo Bill again appeared he was dressed in his own clothing.
“Any more of those fellows coming back?” he asked of Carter.
“No; that is, we haven’t heard anything.”
“Then we’ll be going. Some of them will no doubt be along soon. We can strike the prairie, and I know some gulches and some washes we can get into and which we can follow. It will baffle them to find us now.”
“Now?” questioned Rose.
“Yes. We have two horses now. Midnight, my horse, will carry double, and we now have an extra horse for your father. You can be shifted from one horse to the other, as the animals tire. But come, we must be going, for we must be far from here before daylight. The moonlight is increasing, but they can’t do much trailing before day comes.”