"Well get something to eat and start out from
the spring in the rocks. I'm almost sure the Curlytops were there."
Mrs. Martin had not slept all night, and when the cowboys came back
to breakfast she said she was going to ride with them to search for
her children.
"Yes, I think it would do you good," said Aunt Millie.
Mrs. Martin had learned how to ride when a girl, and she had
practised some since coming to Ring Rosy Ranch. So she did not feel
strange in the saddle. With Baldy and the other cowboys she set off.
They went to the spring amid the rocks and there began the search.
Over the prairie the riders spread out like a big fan, looking
everywhere for the lost ones. And when they were not found in about
an hour Baldy said:
"Well, there's just a chance that their ponies took them to Silver
Creek."
"Where's that?" asked Mrs. Martin.
"It's a stream of water quite a way off," Baldy answered. "It isn't
on our ranch, and we don't very often go there. But if the Curlytops'
ponies were thirsty in the night they might go to Silver Creek, even
if Jan and Ted didn't want them to. I think the ponies went the
nearest way to water."
"Then let us go that way!" cried Mrs. Martin.
Meanwhile Teddy and Janet had awakened. They could look right into
the strange valley through which flowed Silver Creek, though they did
not then know its name.
"And look what a lot of horses!" cried Janet.
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