"Yes," Fred answered.
"In which direction did he go?" asked the Navajo.
Fred pointed to his right and without a word the young Navajo instantly ran to that side of the camp and began to inspect closely the footprints of the men who had gone.
In a brief time he returned and said simply, "No two of the men went together. The man with the scar went first. If the man you saw did not have any pack then it was the short man that took it."
"How do you know they didn't go together?" inquired Grant.
"I can see their footprints. If they had gone together they would have walked side by side or one would have been directly behind the other. That is not the way it is."
"But how do you know that the scarred man went first?"
"Because I find a place where Zeke crossed over from one side of the way to the other. He stepped in the footprint of the other man in one place. Zeke's foot is bigger so I'm sure it was his print. He could not step on the other's footprint unless he was behind him."
"But what makes you think that they both went before the man that Fred saw?"
"Because that man did not have a pack. The pack is gone."