It may be that one has been hanging behind us just in the same way." "It is a very unpleasant idea," Tom said.
"The redskins' ways aint pleasant," Dave said.

"Well, let us be moving up.

The first thing we have got to look for aint gold.

There is no doubt about that being here somewhere.

What we have got to look for is if there is any way out of this hole, because it is a regular trap, and if we were caught here we might hold the gorge for a long time, but they would have us at last certain; besides, they could shoot us down from the top." They proceeded a few hundred yards up the valley, and then stopped suddenly on a cleared space of ground.