For a long time Buffalo Bill gazed through his field glass at the strange sight, and then without a word handed it to Scout Ben.
He, too, looked long and attentively, and when he removed the glasses from his eyes Buffalo Bill said:
“How to get down there is the question.”
“There must be some way, sah.”
“I can discover no break anywhere in the walls. We must start those people out pretty soon, for it will be slow traveling with a wagon train, and we must not be caught on the way. Come, we will go after Black Bill.”
CHAPTER XXIX.
THE RESCUE.
Black Bill, revolver in hand, lay on the pine straw, guarding his prisoners, who were tied to trees in front of him.
Neither the negro nor his prisoners heard the scout approaching, but the latter heard Rocks saying: