“What you goin’ to do?”

“Try to get you down from here.”

“I’m surprised to see you hyar,” said Juniper Joe, more mildly. “I don’t reckon you come out to see if Iron Bow is thinkin’ of war trailin’?”

“We’ll talk about that when we get you down from here,” the scout evaded.

Just then a whoop sounded; and, looking up, Buffalo Bill saw that the baron and Nomad had come in sight.

He stood up and waved his hand to them, that they might locate him; but at the same time he was careful not to give Juniper Joe a chance to push him out of the notch into the cañon. He was convinced that Juniper Joe might want to do that very thing.

“Who’s them?” asked Juniper Joe.

“My friends—the baron and old Nomad.”

Juniper Joe growled something in his throat.