Pawnee Bill found the miner’s spade and pick, and brought them out for the purpose of digging a grave, which work he and the scout at once began, while old Nomad set forth on Nebuchadnezzar for the purpose of finding and capturing the girl’s runaway horse.
Buffalo Bill and his friend worked rapidly, and soon had a grave hollowed out. Buffalo Bill then went to the house to get blankets in which to wrap the body for burial.
When he entered the cabin, he was astonished not to find the girl there. However, he thought she had but stepped out, and he went to the door to look around. When he failed to see her, he called to her.
To his repeated calls there was no answer.
He stepped out of the house, and walked around it.
Nowhere was the girl to be seen.
There was a rear door, which was unlocked, but was not open, and a rear window, but the window had not been disturbed.
Cody began to search the ground quickly with his keen eyes. He saw a moccasin track by the rear door, yet he was not sure but it had been made at the time the master of the house had been killed. The house had been entered then, and some things had been taken, so the girl had declared. That more had not been taken was a marvel to the experienced scout.
“Gordon, come here!” he called from the corner of the house.
Pawnee Bill dropped the spade he was wielding and came running.