"You haven't?" exclaimed George. "I'm afraid we can't do anything for you until we find Grant and Zeke. They have most of the supplies. Let me get into my pack and see what I've got."
George's pack which Thomas Jefferson had insisted upon taking when he rescued the Go Ahead Boy was now opened but there was no food in it.
"There's nothing else to be done," said George, shaking his head.
"Yes, there is something to be done," said Fred tartly. "We've got to do something. You don't know where Soc and Zeke are and I don't know where String and Pete may be. We've got to find them."
"We'll find them," suggested Thomas Jefferson quickly.
Both young Indians had been silent during the conversation although they were intensely interested in the conversation of the two boys.
"I shall go to look up the two who went ahead of you—" began Thomas Jefferson.
"But they may have passed this place and gone in the other direction," interrupted George.
"I shall see," said the Navajo quietly. "I shall go in that direction and Kitoni will go in the other looking for the other two."
"But he may not find them," suggested George quickly. "They probably thought Fred was lost and they have been staying where they were when he left them."