"Say, is that something coming, away up that draw the camp's in?
Seems to me I saw something pass that line of lava, about half a mile over." Applehead stood up and peered into the half darkness.

In a couple of minutes he said: "Ye better git down an' tell the boys t' be on the watch, Lite.

They can't see no hat-wavin' this time uh day.

They's somethin' movin' up to-wards camp, but what er who they be I can't make out in the dark.

Tell Luck--" "What's the matter with us both going ?" Lite asked, cupping his hands around his eyes that he might see better.