"Where is it they are so anxious to hold their entertainmint?" asked Tim.
"I don't know. We'll ask some of the men," answered Tom.
"Ask the corporal," said the first trooper they questioned. "He has been through here before, and it's him as has picked out the spot."
The boys went forward to find the corporal. They came up to him, near the head of the line.
"Where is it we are going to string up the Indian?" asked Tom, indifferently.
"Oh, it's a great place for a sign like that to hang," replied the corporal. "There is a big bare tree, I think it's a cedar, and it's right on top of a rocky mountain's back. The trail we are following leads right up to it, and the only other trail around here runs——"
"The major wants you at once!" a soldier ran up and interrupted them just at that point.
"Runs where?" said Tom, eagerly.
"I will tell you when you come back from the major. We are most there now, so you will see for yourself soon."
"So there is another trail, Tim," said Tom, excitedly. "And to think that we almost got a description of it, and then we are sent for. Well, we'll tell that old fox of a major that we'll obey his commands under protest, and run our chances of——"