CHAPTER X .-- Watched.
A little higher up the valley narrowed again, the sides came closer and closer, until they closed in abruptly in a rounded precipice, down which in the wet season it was evident that a waterfall leaped from a height above.
"They didn't come down here," Dave said.

"If it were anywhere it was near where the attack was made; the sides slope away a bit there.

Now keep your eyes skinned, and see if you can make out any place where a man might climb up or down.

Our lives may depend on it." Just as they reached the old encampment Dick said, "Look, Dave, there is a ledge running up behind that bush; it seems to me that it joins another ledge halfway up.

Tom and I are accustomed to climbing; we will go up a bit and see if it goes anywhere." The two lads stopped as they got behind the bush.
"It looks like a path here, Dave; it has certainly been trodden." The miners came to the spot.
"You are right," Dave said; "it is a path, sure enough.