“Yes; this is our chance. Poke your nose at that peak over there, and keep going. I’ll try to hold you in sight. I guess we can give that crowd the slip even yet.”
Then they began to run, with the peak as their first objective point, being careful to keep to rocky and hard ground.
CHAPTER XXV.
THE BETTS BROTHERS.
Tim Benson was right in saying that the rocky slopes crossed by him and Gorilla Jake would not detain Buffalo Bill, or throw him off the scent.
But the difficult character of the work slowed his progress, even though he had with him such wonderful trailers as Nick Nomad and Wild Bill Hickok.
As for the baron, he did not waste time in trying to spell out the tracks—which he could not see at all without assistance, and hardly then—but contented himself with looking ahead and around, thereby performing a most useful service, as it would not have been advisable for all the eyes of the party to engage in trail searching.
While doing his part of the work, the baron saw a man duck down suddenly behind a rock.
“Vot iss?” he gasped, stopping dead in his tracks.