Men had given up hope of finding him alive and unharmed.

They searched now for his body.

And then the three women who lived with Miss Allen began to inquire about the girl, and so the warning went out that Miss Allen was lost; and they began looking for her also.
Miss Allen, along towards noon of that fourth day, found a small stream of water that was fit to drink.

Beside the stream she found the footprints of a child, and they looked quite fresh--as if they had been made that day.

She whipped up her flagging energy and went on hopefully.
It was a long while afterwards that she met him coming down a canyon on his horse.