See, I can make out gold sparkling in the sand; that is how it was the place was found; they were prospecting along the valley, and they came upon gold, and traced it up to the mouth of this Canyon." "Shall we go in now, Dave ?" Dick asked excitedly, for they were still standing among the rocks, which broke off abruptly opposite the mouth of the Canyon, those in front of it evidently having been swept away by the torrents flowing down it.
"No, don't go a step forward, Dick.

Don't let us risk nothing by showing ourselves now.

We will make our way back as we came to Boston, and bring up the horses after dark.

We have not got a chance to throw away, I can tell you." At night they returned with the horses; two blankets had been cut up, and the feet of the animals muffled.
"If one of them redskins was to come upon our track and saw the print of a horseshoe, it would be all up with us," Zeke said; "we had best do the same ourselves; the heel of boot would be as ugly a mark as a horseshoe.
We must keep well along at the edge of these fallen rocks.

Like enough they come down here to fetch water up to their village, and the further we keep away from the stream the better." The moon was half full, which was fortunate, as they would otherwise have had great difficulty in finding the narrow gap in the cliff.