"Now we're all right," went on Teddy.
"Yes," agreed Janet "We're not lost anymore."
So they rode on a little farther, the ponies now and then stopping
to crop a bit of the sweet grass, when, all of a sudden, Teddy, who
was still a little ahead of his sister, called:
"Look there, Jan!"
"Where?"
Teddy pointed. His sister saw several men on horseback--at least
that is what they looked like--coming toward them. Something about
the figures seemed a bit strange to the children. Ted and Jan looked
at one another and then back toward the ranch houses, which, they
made sure, were not out of sight this time.
"Are they cowboys?" asked Jan of her brother.
"They--they don't just look like 'em," he said. "I mean like Uncle
Frank's cowboys."
"That's what I thought," Janet added. "They look like they had
blankets on--some of 'em."
She and Teddy sat on their ponies' backs and kept looking at the
other figures. They were coming nearer, that was sure, and as they
came closer it was more and more certain to the Curlytops that some
of the strangers on the horses were wrapped in blankets.
"Oh, I know what they are!" suddenly cried Janet.
"What?"
"In--Indians!" faltered Janet. "Oh, Teddy, if they should be _wild_
Indians!"
"Pooh!" exclaimed Teddy, trying to speak bravely. "Uncle Frank said
there weren't any very wild Indians near his ranch."
"Maybe these ones wasn't near the ranch before, but they're coming
near now," said Janet, so excited the words tumbled out all mixed-up
like.
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