The Next Fifity Pages(101-150)

The next fifty pages starts with Garrick, one of the soldiers from the missing army patrol, finds his way to Marl Springs to tell Callaghen where the army patrol is and that they are in trouble because they have no water and are surrounded by Indians. So Callaghen leaves the fort at night so the Indians can't see him as easily. He runs into many Indian attack on the way and kills a couple of Indians. He finally reaches where the army is and they are in bad shape, they have a couple wounded soldiers, they have no horses, and no water. Callaghen leads them to water and leads them back to the fort at Marl Springs. When they get there they find out that three of the men guarding the fort, left at night with lots of food, some of the horses and many other needed supplies. These three men that left were Spencer, Wylie and Champion, I later found out that these are bad guys and they are trying to find the same gold everyone else is looking for. Callaghen makes up his mind that he will try to make a run for the next fort and he is going to take Ridge, Malinda and her aunt, and the Delaware and Beamis. They leave at night and get pretty far and think that the Indians aren't following them but are rather watching the fort waiting for the right time to capture it. During this time back at Camp Cady, Major Sykes decides that something is wrong because the wagon never made it to Nevada. So he gets his army ready and they start marching toward Marl Springs. As Callaghen and the wagon were on their way, they enter a narrow canyon and they feel that something is wrong. All of a sudden Callaghen is hit by a bullet in the head and he losses consciousness. He wakes up to find that bullet only grazed his head and he wagon is gone. He finds Ridge dead on the ground not far from where he was and also his horse is gone. He follows the racks of the wagon to a near water hole and there he finds the wagon with everything gone and his horse. He also finds that his map is gone that shows where the gold is. He figures out that Spencer, Wylie and Champion were the ones that did this. He knows he must find those guys before the have time to kill the girls. He starts looking around and before long he sees where someone has a camp a couple of miles away. He sneaks up to the camp and sees that they have the girls and Beamis tied up by their camp. He hears the men's conservation about how there are two maps and they only one of them, both maps are needed to show where the gold is. He hears that Webb Bolin has the other map because he was a stepbrother of Allison and he had already came once before and explored the caves and found the gold and he was coming back today to get all the gold. The men leave the camp to go and look where one of the men say they thought they saw Callaghen. Once they leave Callaghen unties everyone and gets ready for the bad guys to come back. When they come back Callaghen shoots Wylie and then Callaghen and the girls and Beamis run for cover. They find a hole that goes into the mountain and they go into it because now the bad guys are chasing them.