They are a good bit away yet, but I can hear them." Dick could only make out a low, continuous murmur that sounded to him like a distant waterfall.
"What do you think, Joe," Dave said; "would it be safe to make a run for it?
We might beat off the first attack, but some of us are safe either to get killed or hurt too badly to travel.

They will talk for a quarter of an hour at least after they come up, and by the time they find we have gone, and got their horses over these rocks, and got down to the mouth of this gorge, it will be too dark for them to follow the tracks." "I am with you, Dave," Joe said, as he discharged his rifle.

"That is one more wiped out.

He was just going to fire to see whether we were here still.

That has answered the question; now let us be off.