I am ready to listen to your plan, knowing very well that you have one in mind.

If they haven't killed him, my Hippy will yet beat those scoundrels at their own game.
Any man who has fought duels with the Germans above the clouds, and won, surely will be able to outwit a whole army of these thick-headed mountaineers.

What do you think we should do ?" "At the beginning of this journey, as well as those we have taken before, it was agreed between us that when one strays away or gets separated from the party, the Overlanders were to go into camp at or as near the point of separation as possible, and wait there a reasonable time for the return of the absent one.

That is what I should suggest doing in the present instance," offered Grace.
"Make camp right here ?" asked Anne.
"Yes." "Yes, but are we not going to try to find my Hippy ?" begged Nora.
"I think it advisable to wait a reasonable time, so, with the approval of you folks, I will tell Washington to make camp." This the girls agreed to, though Nora was for setting out in search of her husband at once.

That, too, was what Grace Harlowe would have liked to do, but she believed it would be better for them to remain where they were for the time being.
"Couldn't you follow the trail of those men ?" asked Nora.
"I did up to the point where they rode into a stream to throw off pursuers, just as we did last night.