"
"Then we'll find them. Come on, help look!"
"I don't know how," confessed Janet.
"Well, look for a place where the bushes are broken down and where you
see footprints in the dirt. That's the way Indians tell. Mother read
it out of a book to us."
So Jan and Ted looked all around the spring, and at last Ted found a
place where it seemed as if some one had run through in a hurry, for
twigs were broken off the bushes, and, by looking down at the ground,
he saw the marks of shoes in the dirt.
Of course Ted could not tell who had made them, but he thought surely
it must have been the tramp who had pulled Trouble from the spring.
Ted was sure they were not the footprints of himself and his sister,
for their own were much smaller.
"Come on, Jan!" cried Teddy. "We'll find that tramp now or, anyway,
the place where he hides."
He pushed on through the bushes. There seemed to be a sort of path
leading away from the spring, which was not the same path that Ted and
Grandpa Martin took when they went from the camp to the water-hole to
fill the pail each day. On and on went Ted, with Jan following. She
was so excited now at the thought that perhaps they might find
something, that she was not a bit frightened.
"Wait a minute! Wait for me, Teddy!" she called, as her brother
hurried on ahead of her.
"Come on, Jan!" he called.
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