Still, if you like to go with us, you are welcome; but if the time comes when the redskins have got us shut up in some place we can never get out of alive, remember that you are there on your own choice, and that we had no hand in getting you into the scrape." "We will never blame you, whatever comes of it, Dave.

If the risk is not too great for you and your comrades, it is not too great for us.

There is nothing in the world we should like so much as such an adventure." "Well, that is settled then, and no more words about it.

We shall be glad to have two more with us, and we intended to go alone only because it is not everyone that can be trusted." "What do we take with us ?" "We shall each take a horse, and a Mexican pony to carry our food and traps.

If everything goes right and we find a bonanza, we can load them up on the way back.