In the center lay a score of skeletons, some separately, some in groups of twos and threes.

The remnants of the rags that still hung on them showed that they had been Mexicans.

The two lads felt a thrill of horror at this proof of the fate that had befallen their predecessors.
"Wall," Zeke exclaimed, "that was something like a surprise; there aint no sign they made a fight of it; they were just caught in their sleep, and never even gathered, for resistance.

Well, well, what fools men are to be sure.

I shouldn't have believed as even Mexicans would have been such fools as to sleep here without putting a guard at the entrance.