“See here, that young woman is a captive, and I tell you there should be more than one to aid in her rescue.
“I know Indians from ’way back, and I’ll guarantee to go to their village and return.
“You, in your disguise, are all right, sergeant, and you may be able to help me escape with her, and come away yourself later.
“We can pick out certain points in the mountains which we can discern, where we can meet, and I feel we can accomplish your daughter’s rescue; yes, and get hold of that outlaw by some means also, for I’ll not be happy until his chips are called in.
“I go, too, sergeant.”
“Well, Cody, I see you are determined, so I yield, for I have every confidence in your powers to give the redskins the slip, but what are we to do?”
“Stay right here, lieutenant, until we bring Miss Lucille back, for we may need your support and need it bad.”
“All right. I will do as you suggest; but you and the sergeant arrange your plans of action between you.”
“We will, sir, to-morrow.”
The next morning the scout and the sergeant went up on the range and picked out half a dozen objects on the distant mountains across the river, and agreed to make them points of rendezvous.