help from _some_ of my folks. But so far he don't know _who_ helped me
turn the trick."

"You don't seem to be very serious about it," declared Dorothy.

"Serious? Me? Why, ain't most folks serious enough without everybody
bein' took that way?"

"Perhaps. But I knew something had happened the minute you rode into
camp."

"So did I," asserted Cheyenne, and he spoke sharply to his horse.

Dorothy flushed. "Cheyenne, I rode over to find Jimmy. You needn't--Oh,
there's Aunt Jane now! And there's Jimmy, and the corral is full of
horses!"

"Reckon we better step along," and Cheyenne put Steel Dust to a lope.






CHAPTER XV

MORE PONY TRACKS


Summoned from the west end of the ranch, where he had been irrigating