Every rod or so she stopped to rest and to look back and to call to the Kid who seemed such a tiny mite of humanity among these huge peaks and fearsome gorges.

He seemed to be watching her very closely always when she looked she could see the pink blur of his little upturned face.

She must hurry.

Oh, if she could only send a wireless to his mother! Human inventions fell far short of the big needs, after all, she thought as she toiled upward.
From the top of the peak she could see the hazy outline of the Bear Paws, and she knew just about where the Flying U Coulee lay.

She imagined that she could distinguish the line of its bluff in the far distance.