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NOT YET DEFEATED
Helped by Hugh Menaugh and Bill Gordon they
might now travel on for the lieutenant's camp.
They had to cross several gulches and one or two
ridges; then they came out into view of the dry
valley, at the foot of which the Arkansaw issued
from the mountains, to course eastward through
the foothills and down to the plains far beyond.
It was the same valley. They might see again the Grand Peak, distant in the north, and mark the line of the river, nearer in the south. From the ridges they had been enabled to sight the Great Snow Mountains, also in the south and much farther than the Grand Peak in the opposite direction. Yes, this was the Arkansaw, and the lieutenant had missed his guess by a wide margin.
He was waiting at the camp. He greeted them kindly, but was haggard and seemed much cut up over the result of all his hard marches. No one could resist being sorry for him.
The doctor and John Brown were here, too. They had brought in six deer, so that now there was plenty of meat on hand.
It was two more days before the last of the
