My partners are
going to be worried. And I'm the cook for the outfit, too."
"Boss," Jonas took the game bag, "you take my mule and go on with Miss
Diana and Na-che and I'll come along with the rest of the cattle."
Enoch obediently mounted, Diana fell in beside him, and looked
anxiously into his face. "Please, Judge, are you very cross with me
for breaking in on you? But poor Jonas was consumed with fear for you."
Enoch put his hand on Diana's as it rested on her knee. "You must
know!" he said, and was silent.
"Then it's all right," sighed Diana, after a moment.
"Yes, it's quite all right! How did Jonas find you?"
"It seems that he and Charley concluded that you must have headed
toward Bright Angel. Charley went on to Washington to keep things in
order there. Jonas went up to El Tovar. I had just outfitted for a
trip into the Hopi country when Jonas came to me. He had talked to no
one. He is wonderfully circumspect, but he was frantic beneath his
calm. He begged me to find you for him and--well, I was a little
anxious myself--so I didn't need much urging. We had only been out a
week when we met John Red Sun. The rest was easy. If a person sticks
to the trails in Arizona it's difficult not to trace them.
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