Its light, too, enabled them to avoid rocks that had rolled out farther than the rest; once inside the gorge it was pitch-dark, and they had to feel their way along.
In about a hundred yards it began to widen, and they soon found themselves in a narrow valley with perpendicular sides, which seemed to widen farther up.

The horses, were at once unloaded.
"Now do you lie down," Dave said.

"I will keep watch at the mouth.

I don't think there is any danger; still, we may as well begin as we shall have to go on." "Well, call me up in a couple of hours, then," Zeke said; "it will begin to get light in about four, and as soon as it does we will cover up the tracks." With the first dawn of light the three miners, taking their blankets, went down to the mouth of the Canyon.

The boys accompanied them to watch their operations.