CHAPTER XVIII.
THE QUEST OF THE COWMAN.
It was Hank Hazletine, the cowman, who leaped over the head of Jack Dudley when he was crouching on the rock in the canyon, and it happened in this way: It has been intimated that when the veteran left the boy at the temporary camp on the mountain side his intention was to learn the whereabouts of Motoza, the Sioux, hoping thereby to gain knowledge of the missing Fred Greenwood.
This was a task of extreme difficulty, inasmuch as it was certain the vagrant red man would be on his guard against such strategy.

The Indian whom Hank saw with the aid of the spy-glass was not he whom he wished to trace, but, suspecting he was in the vicinity, the cowman made his way thither by a roundabout course.

He was on the alert for the fellow, or for his ally, Bill Tozer.

Should either or both of them discover Hank, he might well assume that it was an accident.

It could hardly be expected of him that he would remain at the cavern for twenty-four hours, awaiting the time for Tozer to meet him.