You will not be attacked in our camp." Reuben Hinman eagerly agreeing, Dave harnessed the bony horse into the wagon.

After a while the red wagon rested within the confines of the camp of Dick & Co.
In the bright light of the morning, Harry Hazelton was the first to be astir.

He saw Prescott asleep on the floor of the tent, rolled up in a blanket, while another blanket rested on Dick's cot, brought back to the tent, as though some stranger had slept there.
Outside, attached to the seat of their camp wagon, Hazy found a note that mystified him a good deal at first.

It read: _"The sun is now well up.

I shall go at once to Hillsboro, and then my great worry will be over.