CHAPTER 30
When they returned to camp, Chaco sought out Margo. “I need to talk to you. It’s important.”
“Sure. Let me get the girls their breakfast, and…”
“No. Now.”
“Abby says that weren’t nuthin’ but a buck in the bushes a while ago. Anyway, that’s what Russ told her.” She looked at him sideways and clucked her tongue. “It was sumpin’ else, weren’t it?
Chaco looked around and put his finger to his lips. “Shhhhh…let’s get away from camp for a minute.”
“I jist knew it!” Margo threw down the towel she had in her hand and called out. “Abby, I gotta go with Chaco to get kindling to make a fire for the girls’ hot cocoa. We’ll be back in a minute.”
Chaco led Margo to the outskirts of camp to where the cannibals had taken their spy post.
“Oh, no,” Margo said. “Are those foot tracks of ro
