.

"Oh, my dear children! Where have you been?" asked Mrs. Martin, a little
later, as she hugged first Janet and then Teddy.

"We--we got lost," Teddy answered.

"Yes, but you ran away, and that was not right," his mother told him.
"Where did you go?"

"We--we went on the trail after the Indians," Teddy answered.

"Did you find them?" asked Baldy with a smile.

"No, but we found a lot of horses and cows back there in a little valley
with a fence," said Janet. "And we were going to ride to the ranch house
when we saw you."

"Ranch house!" cried Baldy. "There isn't a ranch house within fifteen
miles except the one at Ring Rosy. Did you say you saw some cows and
horses?"

"Yes. In a valley," explained Teddy.

"Show us where it was!" eagerly cried the cowboy, and when the Curlytops
had ridden to it, with Baldy and the others following, the lame cowboy,
whose foot was a little better, exclaimed:

"Well, if the Curlytops haven't gone and done it!"

"Done what?" asked their mother.

"They've found the lost cattle and horses!"

"You mean Uncle Frank's?" asked Teddy.

"That's just what I mean! These are the horses and cattle the Indians
drove away. The Redmen put the animals in this valley and made a fence
at this end so they couldn't get out. They knew the horses and cattle
would have water to drink and grass to eat, and they'd stay here a long
while--until the Indians would have a chance to drive 'em farther away
and sell 'em.

"Yes, that's just what they did. I never thought of this valley, though
I saw it quite a few years ago. I've never been here since. The Indians
knew it would be a good place to hide the horses they stole, and we
might never have found 'em if it hadn't been for you Curlytops."

"I'm glad!" said Teddy.

"So'm I," said Janet, "and I'm hungry, too!"

"Well, we'll soon have you back at Ring Rosy Ranch, where there's a good
breakfast!" laughed Baldy. "Well! Well! To think of you Curlytops
finding what we cowboys were looking all over for!"

"And are daddy and Uncle Frank looking for these horses and cattle?"
asked Teddy.

"Yes. And for the Indians that took 'em. But I guess they won't find
either," Baldy answered.

And Baldy was right. Some hours after the Curlytops were back at Ring
Rosy Ranch, in rode Uncle Frank and the others. They had not found what
they had gone after, and you can imagine how surprised they all were
when told that Ted and Janet had, by accident, found the los