“This may be nothing but a mare’s nest, though,” the officer suggested; “Juniper Joe and his wife may be both downtown right now.”
“His wife was supposed to have been too badly hurt to leave the cabin,” the scout reminded.
“But she may have gone to some doctor’s office!”
Though this was true enough, the scout did not believe it.
After they had made sure that the mine and cabin were unoccupied, Buffalo Bill asked the men to return to the town and make a search for Juniper Joe and his wife, and to arrest them if they were found.
As for himself, as soon as the men set out, he turned about and started off, with the intention of rejoining Nomad and the baron.
“A water haul!” he said to himself, as he walked on swiftly. “But I think that at last we are making some progress.”
It was the scout’s opinion that the couple and Vera Bright had hastily left the town.
“Why?” was the question.
It seemed to him there could be but one answer.