Throughout their talk Tim Benson had not been at ease, owing to his fear that Buffalo Bill’s party might come upon him unawares.
Now he got up and crept stealthily away, after telling the apelike man that he wanted to look round, and would be back in a minute.
When he returned he had news.
“I got a look at ’em,” he announced, “from that hill out there.”
“Wow! Ye did?” said Gorilla Jake, sitting up straighter.
“They’ve found the woman that you scared away from the stage—the woman I was telling you about—and they’re taking her back to it. I reckon they’ll send her on to Calumet Wells with Elmore, or back to Blossom Range.”
“Who’s Elmore?”
“Hank Elmore is the stage driver.”
“Oh!”