There is gold enough to make you all rich, but you will have to fight, and fight hard, to get there and come away again." The horses were unsaddled and picketed, Dave and Joe taking care themselves to unload the three packed ponies, and that the flat bags, over which blankets had been stuffed, should not be noticed.

They stopped there for two days to rest the horses, and then proceeded on their way, arriving at Pueblo a fortnight later.

Thence they traveled together to Santa Fe, and then hired a wagon and joined a large caravan going across the plains east.

When they reached St.Louis they separated.

A division was made of the gold, and the lads started by train for New York, and the next day took their passages for England.
When Dick reached home he was received by his family as one from the dead.