If you
will go back and start from the point where you searched before we
will take up the scout from here and keep on until we find him, or
we join forces again, unless you have something better to propose."
"I don't think there is any better way," said Rand, with which the
others agreed, and thanking him for his offer, the Uncas boys, now
thoroughly alarmed, set out again upon the search.
It was 5 o'clock when they got back to Creston, searching on the
way, and Pepper had not returned, or trace of him found.
"What shall we do next?" asked Jack, as they stood undecided in
the road.
"What is it now?" asked Colonel Snow, who had come up unperceived.
"We can't find Pepper," answered the boys.
"What is it," went on the colonel, "a game of hide and seek?"
"No, sir," responded Rand; "he went over to Highpoint this morning
with a message; I mean he started for Highpoint, but he hasn't been
there and he hasn't come back. We are afraid he is lost."
"Lost!" exclaimed the colonel. "How could that be."
"We don't know," answered Jack; "but we have hunted all over for
him, and he isn't anywhere about.
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