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Weeks and his companions divided up as they had been ordered to do in / coming to the fort, and departed in different directions. The lieutenant / pointed out to them the locality of the bivouac where he had passed so / much of the evening, so that they might avoid it. It was about one / o'clock in the morning when they left, and Christy calculated that / they would reach the ship in an hour and a half, which would give the / commander ample time to get up steam from the banked fires, and move / down four or five miles to the southward of his present position.
The chief of the expedition had sent no message to the captain of the / Bellevite in regard to his own movements, but simply that he would / report to him later. He had already grasped an idea, though he had had / no time to work it up in detail. It looked practicable to him, and he / had jumped to a conclusion as soon as he was in possession of the facts / covering the situation in the vicinity of Fort Morgan.