"'A SPY-GLASS! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD ONE.'"
"A spy-glass! I didn't know you had one. How do you tell that they won't stay?"
"The glass? It's a double one. Some army officer owned it once, I suppose. I got it of old Two Knives himself. Nobody knows how it came to him. Look through it."
Steve had seen such things before, but had known very little about them. He did not even know how very good a glass that was with which he was now peering down upon the camp of the Apaches.
"See the lodge-poles lying there? In a dozen places?"
"They've put up some lodges."
"If they meant to stay, they'd put up the others. No use for us to go back. The Lipans are coming along."
"But how can we get any further? We can't ride right through them."
"I should say not. Nor over them, either. But if we can get into that pine forest over there on the north slope, without being seen, we can ride around them."