Captain Bayard is
going to see me after supper about a plan of his to retake them."
"I wonder what officer he will send?"
"Perhaps I shall go."
"Father could never stand the expense of sending them to the States, I
suppose," said Henry, despondently.
"They could easily be sent to the Missouri River without cost," I
observed.
"How, please?"
"There is a quartermaster's train due here in a few weeks. It would
cost nothing to send the ponies by the wagon-master to Fort Union, and
then they could be transferred to another train to Fort Leavenworth."
"Frank, I've a scheme!" exclaimed the younger boy.
"What is it?"
"If Mr. Duncan finds Sancho and Chiquita, let's send them to Manuel
Perea and Sapoya on the Rio Grande. When they go to the military
school they can take our horses and theirs, and we'll join the
cavalry."
"That's so," said Frank. "Manuel wrote that if he went to school he
should cross the plains with his uncle, Miguel Otero, who is a
freighter. He could take the whole outfit East for nothing. There
would remain only the cost of shipping them from Kansas City to the
school.
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