go home, and try and make up for
what I done to hurt the old folks. Somehow, just the idea of it makes me
feel better."

He eagerly questioned the boys about his people. Of course, they did not
have much news to tell him. Hank was only a year or so older than his
brother, and the absent one was very much interested in hearing how they
had met him, and what awakened Hank to a consciousness of the terrible
mistake he was making in associating with unscrupulous men.

After that Reddy assumed a new place with the boys. He seemed to be
closer to them than ever, and Frank no longer wondered why the other's
sunburned face had seemed partly familiar to him when he first met him.

"You and Hank are very much alike," he said, later on, to Reddy.

"They used to say that at home. I was just big enough to be accused of
many of Hank's tricks, and once I got a lickin' he deserved."

"And another thing," laughed Frank, "I know now what he was about to
tell me at the time I was dragged away by my folks. I was asking him how
I could ever recognize you, in case we met, and he put up his hand to
his head, but I never heard the rest of it."

"Why, of course, he was going to tell you that I had a mop of beautiful
red hair, and that Teddy went with Reddy. I guess you'd have known me if
you'd heard that," was the good-natured remark of the found one.

On the following day the four outdoor chums determined to set out in a
bunch to have a grand hunt, following the dense woods far down the
valley. The last words of the old stockman were a caution in connection
with the dry grass.

"Be careful about a fire, lads. If you make one, be sure the last spark
is out before you leave it. A forest fire would play the mischief just
now, with everything so dry. But somehow, I've got hopes that the rain
is coming soon," and he looked into the west, as though the few
low-down clouds gave him encouragement.

When noon came the boys had put up a couple of elk, but at such a
distance that no one but Bluff fired, and he because he knew no better.

"Do you think I wounded him?" he had the nerve to ask, whereat Jerry
looked at Frank and just smiled broadly.

"Anyhow, they ran off faster after I fired," asserted Bluff confidently.

"I should think anything would," was all Jerry said, and if there was
malice in the remark Bluff did not know it in his innocence.

While they sat down to eat the lunch they had carried along Frank called
attention to the fa