Captured by the Navajos

our former seat under the cliff. The boy was exceedingly depressed, and I did

or dying," he answe

te and place his body where the passing column would have seen it. That in itself is good evidence t

aimed Frank. "I feel as th

You cannot find your brother's trail,

sage, and I fear that she cannot follow us so far. She must be fear

age. As Vic was without her coll

rd between the water and the wagons, uttering their discontent. Towards midnight, overco

ile vigorously braying their protests against such ill usage, and, once under way, slowly drew the wagons

he had accompanied the advance. We had proceeded about a mile when a corporal of the guard ran after me, and reported

atter, Miss Ar

time," she sobbed, "that

an generally remedy

ped us, but I do not

he trouble

obliged to travel very fast yesterday, and over a flinty road, and

bad as you think," I said

de an ox, engaged in binding rawhide "boots" to the animal's feet. These boots were squares cut from a fresh hide procured from the last ox slaughter

le in this condition,

's bad's this, but

ing foot. I don't see how you kept

, or gi

e a mistake. We could

t' say anythin'," said Mr. Arnold. "

eighter. We can exchange with you. A beef is a beef. Turn your cattle into our herd, and

hall want 'em. They know

ten miles away. At nine o'clock the head of the column had reached the banks

water gleaming through the green foliage of the cottonwoods and the verdant acres of rich grass that stretched along the river-side. Brakes we

r all the refreshed animals were cropping the generous grass. As I was going to Captain Bayard I observed Brenda Arnold taking

ld do it until he and Mr. H

ank? Where h

find his

telling me when we were exc

s,

you not

must not before

fearful danger in which

him," and the pretty girl betrayed her lack of confidence in the

poral Frank s

water which Aunt Martha had filtered through sand, and asked me to attend to the odome

" I answered; "but i

rested heaviest upon Captain Bayard and myself. We were answerabl

. It cannot be far from here. Tell him to send me three days' grain for forty animals. While you are gone I will select a camp farther down stre

r, and obtained the desired forage. When I returned our new ca

ed Baldwin to grain his horses and be ready to start in search of our boys at daybreak," continued the captain. "You will accompany him. We shall be in no dan

ays are we

If the boys are not found in that t

asted until an hour before midnight. I arose, dressed, and sat do

ld it mean? I listened intently. The horse slowed down to a walk. He entered the camp. The voi

al Frank Burton,

?" said the sentinel, forgetting in his joy to continue the usual

the light of the moon, I saw Frank, mounted upon Sancho, with Vic in

he's badly hurt. Here's the let

figures of officers and soldiers gathered about the camp-fire, curious to listen to an account of the boy's adventure. One little, blanketed figure ran out of

a growth which is simply a mass of fine thorns. This cactus grows in patches, and when the dead clusters fall to the ground the spines stick to everything touching them. The dog had stepped into a bed of thes

k and to the Rio Puerco without seeing any sign of his brother. Returning to the west he dismounted at the crossing of th

as aroused, and he rode on to examine the object. A few hundred yards more revealed the fact that he had come upon the missing Vic, and that something was seriously the matter with her. At first Frank thought she was mad or in a fit, but as he came nearer she sat up and made demonstrations of joy at his approach. He dismounted, and found her in the condition already described. On the ground was a chip, neatly cut and shaven, which she was in vain attempting to take between her

buck-skin. Untying and opening it, Frank found the inner surface covered with wri

arizo. Come to butte with cavalry, and wave handkerchief from left peak about noon

en

mouth and feet. The dog seemed to understand the necessity of the treatment she was receiving, and bore the pain submissively,

imbed to the highest point reached by the path, and saw it descend on the opposite side to a brook, deep in the valley. Here we halted, took th

see us start to return, saddle and bridle as rapid

nd upon us to be ready wh

l yards, and at last came to a perpendicular shaft of sandstone twenty fe

would have set us to attempt an impossibility,"

sible as it appears," I replied

a practicable place for attempting the asc

many verdant valleys-grazing-grounds of the nomadic Navajos. One of these valleys lay at the foot of the mountain upon which we stood, with a bright stream of w

herds, he said: "Those specks near the ponies must be men, I su

own among these rocks, where we shall be l

you see, sir,

some on foot. The pony herd, which must number several hundred, is in charge of three na

see nothing that looks like Henry," he said. "He certai

ith yeso to protect

s-whit

it for whitewash, and to

ing statues. Not a rag on them except 'breech-clouts.' Hello, there c

o each flock of sheep in succession, stopped near the women a few moments, and then came down to the pony herd. They approached the boys, and one large Indian, who appeared to be the chief, li

e riding for fresh ones from the herd, and then disappea

k; "but the saddle and bridle are different. Se?ora Perea said tha

no mention of another boy, and there are three with that

fixed upon the three boys. They formed in line, facing us, looked long in our direction, and then, as if started by a