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We will now resume our narrative at the point where we left it at the end of our first chapter, and rejoin Red Cedar, who thanks to the weapons found in the cache, had regained all his ferocity and was already dreaming of revenge.
The bandit's position, however, was still very perplexing, and would have terrified any man whose mind was not so strong as his own. However large the desert may be -- however perfect a man's knowledge may be of the prairie refuges -- it is impossible for him, if alone, to escape for any length of time the search of persons who have an interest in catching him.