CHAPTER XVII .-- Conclusion.
Another ten days of arduous toil, and, in turning a sharp corner in a defile, they saw a number of men at work.

As these heard the sound of the horses' feet they threw down their picks and shovels, and seized their guns.
"Don't say anything about the gold," Dave exclaimed to the others.

"It is lucky it is all covered up." As soon as the miners saw that the new-comers were whites they lowered their guns.
"Why, where on earth have you come from ?" one of them asked, as they rode up.
"We have been making a prospecting tour among the hills." "Have you found anything ?" "Yes; we have found a first-rate place, but the Apaches drove us off from it when we had been at work only four days, and we have had hard work to save our scalps.

I have no objection to give you the indications, for I will not go back again among them ramping Apaches not to find solid gold.

There is the map as I steered by.