“Yes.”
“What have you learned about the band toward the left?”
“We have not seen them since they left early this morning.”
“Bring the runner here as quickly as you can.”
The one indicated for the mission came up quickly, and the Professor, addressing him, said:
“Ralsea and Uraso have gone to the north, and I have had no word from them since last night. Go to them at once and tell them that I have moved the Berees to the northwest, and tell them, also, that a tribe moved away from us this morning, in that same direction, and they may be going toward my people.”
Then giving directions to the warriors, they started forward to follow in the trail of the mysterious tribe that had left them early in the morning.
Before three o’clock one of the scouts from the west appeared in their midst and hurriedly explained the situation.
“The tribe which left us was followed until they met another lot of warriors, and are now fighting with them.”