escuer was drawing the long

ppy with a price on his

" rebuked Lieutenant Wingate. "Do we do as my friend suggested, and hike

question. She is our cap

garded Hippy wit

oling us, Hippy

st friends?" answered Lieutenant Wingate i

tart at daybreak. Washington, do you know w

does," drawl

is it f

ps an' er jump

ck of fleas," grumbled

aid Grace, rising. "Washington, pack up everything we shall not

es

the farm in question. The map was a sectional map issued by the govern

ppears to be quite a bit out of our way, but that doesn't matter in

o-night?" ask

low tone. "We will take turns. Take your blanket out. H

ned his offer, telling him that they could not trust him to keep awake in view of what he had been through and the sleep he had l

to sleep that Elfreda put a quick pressure on th

nctively sensing that the pressure

g yonder by Washington's te

tentive listening. "It may be Washington himself. Don't shoot. Remember, too, t

ought of

ell that any member of the Overland party had ever

kotched me! He kotche

e colored boy e

Grace. "Shoot high!

, and the howls and the shots brought the others of

no one shoot without orders, unless i

," advised

have harmed that boy-Well, you k

xtreme care, pausing now and then to listen. It was her opinion that the disturbers had left, but s

it empty. There was no trace, that she was able to discover in the dark, to indicate what had happened to him. Not satisfied wit

he turned

mpanions from behind. All were sitting on the ground, silent, expectant, waiting, either for Grace's

too bad," m

r anything else?

l morning. That settles our getting started in the morning, for I for one shall not leave here until we ha

information, can't

will be of

all, but that his howls made it necessary for them to take him to protect

aking the lead in the arrangements, which Grace was now glad to have him do. Then again, she understood full we

al whinney of a pony. The minds of the Overlanders, however, were active. They were pondering over these persistent attacks on them, and Grace, for one, became finally convinced that Lieu

harming him, unless, perhaps, it were necessary to do so for their own protection. That, the girls

g occurred to disturb them or even rouse them from their endless listening and peering into the darkness with straining eyes and bated breaths. Therefore, the