The Boy Ranchers in Camp; Or, The Water Fight at Diamond X
l. Then, dismounting, Bud, Nort and Dick scrambled up the earth slope on one side until they could look into the
g!" said Bud, in b
le," added No
before that'll stop in a l
asked Bud, unconscious of the
wered. "I happened t' notice it whe
rt. "Can you get
iver, under th' mountain, though how they like the dark I can't
r confirmation, and their cousin,
gh the pipe. But if we don't get any
come back-as it did
iguring out something on the back of an
ter doesn't come back, we'll have to drive all the stock over to Diamond X. Can't take a cha
was plenty in Flume Valley, and, had the stream continued to come through the pipe, ther
pe, the other end being hidden in the opening of the nat
eat we received?" mused Bud, as he and his cousins went down th
as, who sent the wa
rom Pocut River?" asked Bud, in turn. "I mean Hank Fisher, and the
ion. "He couldn't do it at th' river end of th' pipe, without bein' found out, and he h
puzzle. Well, let's have grub, and talk about it later. It may
the grass, though some water was used to irrigate certain sections that would be called "meadows" in the east. This drinking water
But it was the absence of drinking places that caused it to be passed by, until, by artificial means, tapping the
concrete reservoir. When that was exhausted, unless the water again s
ed Nort, as, with his brother and Bud, he ascende
dry as an old buffalo skull
at the night was coming with its gloom to match their
Fisher or Del Pinzo has it in for us-can shut off the water w
tunnel where the old watercourse runs? I've been through i
ently ahead. There was a movement in
Bud sharply, his hand
om Pocut Pete, whose voice the boys recognized. "
't," spoke Bud
answer, and it was followed
the figure of the strange cowboy becoming more and more indistinct. Bud
a!" exclaimed
and he waved toward the reservoir which was strangely still
not investigate and see wh
tigate
he old undergrou
hrough the tun
y through, and the water itself doesn't occupy muc
miles, though we'd have to carry lanterns,
. "If there is a branch passage maybe that's where the
h you!"
y, there came the sudden sound of a shot, which shattered th
weird howling, and the startled steers