The Golden Canyon Contents: The Golden Canyon; The Stone Chest

wall of rock had been split as if by an earthquake. The opening was not more than ten yards wide, and on looking up a narrow line of sky appeared between the walls o

right into this Canyon. Look, boys, there is a stream comes down here in the wet season, and runs into the one in the middle of the valley. See, I can make out gold spa

mong the rocks, which broke off abruptly opposite the mouth of the Canyon, those

selves now. We will make our way back as we came to Boston, and bring up the

ses; two blankets had been cut up,

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 fall

nding the narrow gap in the cliff. Its light, too, enabled them to avoid rocks that had rolled out f

d themselves in a narrow valley with perpendicular sides, whic

at the mouth. I don't think there is any danger; st

said; "it will begin to get light in about four, a

as only in the sand and gravel swept down by the floods from the gorge that any footmarks could be seen; these were first leveled, and then with the blankets the sur

said; "we are safe from anyone passing.

prised in here," Zeke said; "half a dozen men ought

no doubt they thought they were safe in here. That Indian village could not have

have followed on their trail for weeks, till he found where they were going, and then made off to

unpleasant i

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 w

core of skeletons, some separately, some in groups of twos and threes. The remnants of the rags that still hung on them showed

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 wi