"You didn't see anything; did you, Dick?" asked Yellin' Kid of the remaining sentry. "I mean after the first scare."
"No, nothing. He didn't come back—whoever he was."
"Wonder what he came for, anyhow?" mused Bud who had started to follow
Billee to the water hole.
Suddenly Nort, who was walking near his cousin, stooped and picked something up off the ground. It was a soiled bit of paper, evidently part of what had once been a grocery bag.
"Maybe he came to leave this!" suggested Nort as he turned the paper over.
"Came to leave that—what is it?" asked Bud.
"It's some sort of a warning, I guess," was the answer. "Look!"
He held the soiled scrap out to the others. The writing was large and straggling, but it was plain. The warning said: