"I wish to see Buffalo Bill, and place these facts before him, for we can tell him where to find the outlaws' secret retreat, and I believe that the girl and the young man can be saved and every member of the robber band captured."
"It would be a grand thing for you to do."
"Yes, it is just what I wish to do, to render some valuable service to the Government."
"I will start to-night, but you, pard, must remain here in possession of our mines."
"As you wish, pard; but will you be gone long?"
"Not a day longer than is necessary, pard."
"Well, success go with you," was Lucas Langley's response, and the two men began to make preparations for the start of the one with information of where the retreat of the outlaw band could be found.
Andrew Seldon did not care to take a packhorse, for he wished to make all the time possible, and when the sun went down he was ready for the trail, and, with Lucas Langley accompanying him, he started down the cañon to steal by the robbers' camp.