It's only fifty miles to Fort Severn, and you can make it easy in two or three days with your teams and baggage.

You've traveled the plains long 'nough to understand how the thing is done." At this juncture the three men who had been sent out in different directions on a reconnoissance came in with their report.

One of them had climbed the very tree in which Fred Munson had taken refuge.

This gave him an extended view of the surrounding country.

One of the others had devoted himself to a careful examination of the river, while the third scanned the prairie in another direction.