so that the Apaches, if caught in any trap at all, would be caught in
before committing themselves.
There were rocks and stones on the right and left, and here and there
chance to hide, but just there was the whole difficulty. How was the
were unusually propitious. Everything conspired to invite the attempt
one of them signaled to the Indian left behind. It came in the shape
a bird. The horseman started and turned his head.html">head.html">head sidewise to listen
The Indian held his head a moment in the attitude of deep attention,
head. A full minute passed. Then a second call was heard, emitted in
business.
The trained ear of the veteran scout could have detected no difference
so far as meaning was concerned. The red-skin had no sooner caught it
following him, bearing the lad upon his back.html">back.html">back.html">back.
The warrior glanced backward only once, to satisfy himself that his
meantime, the heart of Fred was throbbing painfully with hope. He
CHAPTER XV
escape. There was Fred seated upon the back of a mustang.html">mustang. His copper
while the only Indian in sight was a dozen feet ahead with his back
he did not deserve safety unless he was willing to run that or any
gently pulled it and the beast stopped. He was walking so quietly
surface, and the Indian, from some cause or other, failed to notice
doubled.
At that instant, the redskin turned his head as quick as lightning.
steed about and started him back in the ravine at full gallop, the
Apache, and he threw himself forward upon the horse, so as to make the
not only on account of the risk to his favorite mustang, but because
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