The next morning Adam left for the cabin and a few days of rest. He was lucky the weather was in his favor. Adam traveled as far as he could before stopping to make camp. He barely slept but what little sleep he did get was full of dreams.
Once again he dreamed of the little girl except this time she was sick, frighten and alone in the woods. Adam next morning didn't know what to think, he was afraid for the little girl's life but he didn't know whether or not this child was real or just a dream. He packed up camp and headed for the cabin.
Adam final reached to cabin about noon, he unpacked the supplies the mule was carrying then bedded the mule down in the small barn. Next, Adam bedded down his own horse, Sport, then made sure there was enough fire wood to last him a few days. He was glad his father fixed up the cabin, when he first bought the land. The cabin had a bedroom, kitchen with a pump in it, a little sitting room with a fire place and a bath house attached to the kitchen. Adam fixed himself a small meal then spent the rest of the day reading a good book on the porch. Adam looked out and saw smoke coming from the woods, just on the other side of the Ponderosa boarder. Adam didn't think anything of the smoke, he knew people hunted in those woods all the time; he thought it was just a hunter making camp for the night. Before Adam went to bed he made up his mind the next morning he was going to go hunting.
Adam woke up early the next morning and prepared to go hunting. Later in the morning after not catching a thing Adam decided to see if the other hunter had any lucky. But as Adam approached the spot where he saw the smoke last night, he was met with devastation. It wasn't a camp of a hunter; it was a camp of a family. The wagon had been what caused the smoke for it was almost completely burnt. Not too far from the wagon was the bodies of a man and woman, they had been shot.
"Hello, is someone there?" he heard some noise but he didn't see anything.
He heard the noise again and then what surprised him the most was he heard someone crying. Leading Sport by the reigns, Adam made his way toward the direction of the noise.
A few yards away from the camp, curled up under a huge tree was a little girl. As Adam got closer the more the little girl cried.
"Please, don't be frighten, I'm not going to hurt you. My name is Adam and this is my horse Sport."
Little girl raised her head and looked at him; Adam's heart skipped a beat.