The kind-hearted scout was really at a loss what to say and do in this dire emergency, but he induced her to lie down again on the bed; and then he went outside, thinking to get a spade and bury the body of John Forest. As he did so, he beheld two men coming along the trail. He stared, then recognized them, and ran toward them, calling their names. They were Buffalo Bill and old Nick Nomad. It was the family of John Forest that Buffalo Bill had been anxious to warn against the dangers of the Blackfeet. CHAPTER XX. AN AMAZING DISAPPEARANCE. Lena Forest came out of the cabin when she heard Pawnee Bill talking with the scouts and the trapper. She recognized the scout, for once he had called on her father, and she ran toward him. “Oh, if you had but been here sooner!” she wailed. Buffalo Bill dismounted, and Nomad did the same. “Yes, we came too late,” said the scout sadly. “I have been talking with Major Lillie, and we think you should be sent at once to the town. Major Lillie will go with you, while my old friend, Nomad, and I will pick up the trail of the Blackfeet murderers of your father. That’s all that can be done now, except to give your father decent burial, which we will do at once.” He took the girl by the hand, and his kind words caused her tears to flow afresh. “Now, if you will go back into the house and lie down again for a while it will be better for you,” he urged. “There is absolutely nothing you can do, and you need as much rest as you can get before you start on your trip. We will find your horse; and, if you like, Nomad will go in and prepare something for you to eat, or make some coffee for you.” “I couldn’t eat a mouthful,” she said. “But you will go into the house?” he urged. She understood, turned about with slow feet, and disappeared within. Pawnee Bill found the miner’s spade and pick, and brought them out for the purpose of digging a grave, which work he and the scout at once began, while old Nomad set forth on Nebuchadnezzar for the purpose of finding and capturing the girl’s runaway horse. Buffalo Bill and his friend worked rapidly, and soon had a grave hollowed out. Buffalo Bill then went to the house to get blankets in which to wrap the body for burial. When he entered the cabin, he was astonished not to find the girl there. However, he thought she had but stepped out, and he went to the door to look around. When he failed to see her, he called to her. To his repeated calls there was no answer. He stepped out of the house, and walked around it. Nowhere was the girl to be seen. There was a rear door, which was unlocked, but was not open, and a rear window, but the window had not been disturbed.