"Yes," laughed Fred, "but I have known people to have bad luck who never heard of Thorn's Gulch."
"They may have bad luck without coming here," said Thomas Jefferson, "but they are sure to have it if they do come."
"Why don't you go and help find your friend?" spoke up Zeke, addressing the Navajo as he spoke.
"Kitoni will come."
"Do you think he will find John and Pete?" inquired Fred eagerly.
"He will find them," answered the Navajo. "It may take two days, it may take more."
"Why I couldn't have been as many miles away as that," declared Fred.
"It's not the number of miles, it's the difficulty of finding the gulch into which they have gone while they were looking for you."
"Do you think they separated?" asked Fred.
The Navajo nodded affirmatively, but did not speak.