Dick could see no sign of human life down there. No rejoicing Sioux warrior9 galloped10 over the swells11, no echo of a triumphant12 war whoop13 came to his ear. Over mountain and plain alike the silence of the desert brooded. But high above the pass great black birds wheeled on lazy pinions14.
Dick believed more strongly than ever that the Sioux had gone away. Savage15 tribes do not linger over a battlefield that is finished; yet as he reached the bottom of the slope his heart began to beat heavily again, and he was loath16 to leave the protecting shadow of the pines. He fingered his rifle, passing his hand gently over the barrel and the trigger. It was a fine weapon, a beautiful weapon, and just at this moment it was a wonderful weapon. He felt in its full force, for the first time in his life, what the rifle meant to the pioneer.
The boy, after much hesitation17 and a great searching of eye and ear, entered the pass. At once the sunlight dimmed. Walls as straight as the side of a house rose above him three of four hundred feet, while the distance between was not more than thirty feet. Dwarf18 pines grew here and there in the crannies of the cliffs, but mostly the black rock showed. Dwarf pines also grew at the bottom of the pass close to either cliff, and Dick kept among them, bending far down and advancing very slowly.
Fifty yards were passed, and still there was no sound save a slight moaning through the pass, which Dick knew was the sigh of the wind drawn19 into the narrow cleft20. It made him shudder21, and had he not been of uncommon7 courage he would have turned back.
He looked up. The great black birds, wheeling on lazy pinions, seemed to have sunk lower. That made him shudder, too, but it was another confirmation22 of his belief that all the Sioux had gone. He went eight or ten yards farther and then stopped short. Before him lay two dead horses and an overturned wagon23. Both horses had been shot, and were still in their gear attached to the wagon.
Dick examined the wagon carefully, and as he yet heard and saw no signs of a human being save himself, his courage grew. It was a big wagon of the kind used for crossing the plains, with boxes around the inside like lockers24. Almost everything of value had been taken by the Sioux, but in one of the lockers Dick was lucky enough to find a large, heavy, gray blanket. He rolled it up at once, and with a strap26 cut from the horse's gear tied it on his back, after the fashion of a soldier on the march.
"The first great treasure!" he murmured exultantly27. "Now for the next!"
He found in the same wagon, jammed under the driver's seat and hidden from hasty view, about the half of a side of bacon—ten pounds, perhaps. Dick fairly laughed when he got his hands upon it, and he clasped it lovingly, as if it were a ten-pound nugget of pure gold. But it was far better than gold just then. He wrapped it in a piece of canvas which he cut from the cover of the wagon, and tied it on his back above the blanket.
Finding nothing more of value in the wagon, he resumed his progress up the pass. It was well for Dick that he was stout29-hearted, and well for him, too, that he was driven by great need, else he would surely have gone back.
He was now come into the thick of it. Around him everywhere lay the fallen, and the deeds done in Indian warfare30 were not lacking. Sam Conway lay upon his side, and brutal31 as the man had been, Dick felt grief when he saw him. Here were others, too, that he knew, and he counted the bodies of the few women who had been with the train. They had died probably in the battle like the rest. They, like the men, had been hardened, rough, and coarse of speech and act, but Dick felt grief, too, when he saw them. Nearly all the animals had been slain32 also in the fury of the attack, and they were scattered33 far up the pass.
Dick resolutely34 turned his face away from the dead and began to glean35 among the wagons36 for what the Sioux might have left. All these wagons were built like the first that he had searched, and he was confident that he would find much of value. Nor was he disappointed. He found three more blankets, and in their own wagon the buffalo37 robe that he had lamented38. Doubtless, its presence there was accounted for by the fact that the Sioux did not consider a buffalo robe a trophy39 of their victory over white men.
Other treasures were several boxes of crackers40, about twenty boxes of sardines41, three flasks42 of brandy, suitable for illness, a heavy riding cloak, a Virginia ham, two boxes of matches, a small iron skillet, and an empty tin canteen. He might have searched further, but he realized that time was passing, and that Albert must be on the verge43 of starvation. He had forgotten his own hunger in the excitement of seek and find, but it came back now and gnawed44 at him fiercely. Yet he would not touch any of the food. No matter how great the temptation he would not take a single bite until Albert had the same chance.
He now made all his treasures into one great package, except the buffalo robe. That was too heavy to add to the others, and he tied it among the boughs46 of a pine, where the wolves could not reach it. Then, with the big pack on his back, he began the return. It was more weight than he would have liked to carry at an ordinary time, but now in his elation47 he scarcely felt it. He went rapidly up the slope and by the middle of the afternoon was going down the other side.
As he approached the pine alcove48 he whistled a familiar tune49, popular at the time—"Silver Threads Among the Gold." He knew that Albert, if he were there—and he surely must be there—would recognize his whistle and come forth50. He stopped, and his heart hammered for a moment, but Albert's whistle took up the second line of the air and Albert himself came forth jauntily51.
"We win, Al, old boy!" called Dick. "Just look at this pack!"
"I can't look at anything else," replied Albert in the same joyful52 tones. "It's so big that I don't see you under it. Dick, have you robbed a treasure ship?"
"No, Al," replied Dick, very soberly. "I haven't robbed a treasure ship, but I've been prowling with success over a lost battlefield—a ghoul I believe they call such a person, but it had to be done. I've enough food here to last a week at least, and we may find more."
He put down his pack and took out the bacon. As Albert looked at it he began unconsciously to clinch53 and unclinch his teeth. Dick saw his face, and, knowing that the same eager look was in his own, he laughed a little.
"Al," he said, "you and I know now how wolves often feel, but we're not going to behave like wolves. We're going to light a fire and cook this bacon. We'll take the risk of the flame or smoke being seen by Sioux. In so vast a country the chances are all in our favor."
They gathered up pine cones54 and other fallen wood, and with the help of the matches soon had a fire. Then they cut strips of bacon and fried them on the ends of sharpened sticks, the sputter55 making the finest music in their ears.
Never before had either tasted food so delicious, and they ate strip after strip. Dick noticed with pleasure how the color came into Albert's cheeks, and how his eyes began to sparkle. Sleeping under the pines seemed to have benefited instead of injuring him, and certainly there was a wonderful healing balm in the air of that pine-clad mountain slope. Dick could feel it himself. How strong he was after eating! He shook his big shoulders.
"Merely getting ready to start again," replied Dick. "You know the old saying, Al, 'you've got to hit while the iron's hot.' More treasure is down there in the pass, but if we wait it won't stay there. Everything that we get now is worth more to us than diamonds."
"It's so," said Albert, and then he sighed sadly as he added,
"How I wish I were strong enough to go with you and help!"
"Just you wait," said Dick. "You'll be as strong as a horse in a month, and then you'll have to do all the work and bring me my breakfast in the morning as I lie in bed. Besides, you'd have to stay here and guard the treasure that we already have. Better get into the pine den28. Bears and wolves may be drawn by the scent3 of the food, and they might think of attacking you."
They put out the fire, and while Albert withdrew into the pine shelter, Dick started again over the mountain. The sun was setting blood red in the west, and in the east the shadows of twilight57 were advancing. It required a new kind of courage to enter the pass in the night, and Dick's shudders58 returned. At certain times there is something in the dark that frightens the bravest and those most used to it.
Dick hurried. He knew the way down the mountain now, and after the food and rest he was completely refreshed. But as fast as he went the shadows of twilight came faster, and when he reached the bottom of the mountain it was quite dark. The plain before him was invisible, and the forest on the slope behind him was a solid robe of black.
Dick set foot in the pass and then stopped. It was not dread but awe45 that thrilled him in every vein59. He saw nothing before him but the well of darkness that was the great slash60 in the mountains. The wind, caught between the walls, moaned as in the day, and he knew perfectly61 well what if was, but it had all the nature of a dirge62, nevertheless. Overhead a few dim stars wavered in a dusky sky.
Dick forced himself to go on. It required now moral, as well as physical, courage to approach that lost battlefield lying under its pall63 of night. Never was the boy a greater hero than at that moment. He advanced slowly. A bush caught him by the coat and held him an instant. He felt as if he had been seized in a man's grasp. He reached the first wagon, and it seemed to him, broken and rifled, an emblem64 of desolation. As he passed it a strange, low, whining65 cry made his backbone66 turn to ice. But he recovered and forced an uneasy little laugh at himself. It was only a wolf, the mean coyote of the prairies!
He came now into the space where the mass of the wagons and the fallen lay. Dark figures, low and skulking67, darted68 away. More wolves! But one, a huge timber wolf, with a powerful body and long fangs69, stood up boldly and stared at him with red eyes. Dick's own eyes were used to the darkness now, and he stared back at the wolf, which seemed to be giving him a challenge. He half raised his rifle, but the monster did not move. It was a stranger to guns, and this wilderness70 was its own.
It was Dick's first impulse to fire at the space between the red eyes, but he restrained it. He had not come there to fight with wolves, nor to send the report of a shot through the mountains. He picked up a stone and threw it at the wolf, striking him on the flank. The monster turned and stalked sullenly71 away, showing but little sign of fear. Dick pursued his task, and as he advanced something rose and, flapping heavily, sailed away. The shiver came again, but his will stopped it.
He was now in the center of the wreckage72, which in the darkness looked as if it had all happened long ago. Nearly every wagon had been turned over, and now and then dark forms lay between the wheels. The wind moaned incessantly73 down the pass and over the ruin.
Overcoming his repulsion, Dick went to work. The moon was now coming out and he could see well enough for his task. There was still much gleaning74 left by the quick raiders, and everything would be of use to Albert and himself, even to the very gear on the fallen animals. He cut off a great quantity of this at once and put it in a heap at the foot of the cliff. Then he invaded the wagons and again brought forth treasures better than gold.
He found in one side box some bottles of medicine, the simple remedies of the border, which he packed very carefully, and in another he discovered half a sack of flour—fifty pounds, perhaps. A third rewarded him with a canister of tea and a twenty-pound bag of ground coffee. He clutched these treasures eagerly. They would be invaluable75 to Albert.
Continuing his search, he was rewarded with two pairs of heavy shoes, an ax, a hatchet76, some packages of pins, needles, and thread, and a number of cooking utensils—pots, kettles, pans, and skillets. Just as he was about to quit for the purpose of making up his pack, he noticed in one of the wagons a long, narrow locker25 made into the side and fastened with a stout padlock. The wagon had been plundered77, but evidently the Sioux had balked78 at the time this stout box would take for opening, and had passed on. Dick, feeling sure that it must contain something of value, broke the padlock with the head of the ax. When he looked in he uttered a cry of delight at his reward.
He brought forth from the box a beautiful double-barreled breech-loading shotgun, and the bounty79 of chance did not stop with the gun, for in the locker were over a thousand cartridges80 to fit it. Dick foresaw at once that it would be invaluable to Albert and himself in the pursuit of wild ducks, wild geese, and other feathered game. He removed some of the articles from his pack, which was already heavy enough, and put the shotgun and cartridges in their place. Then he set forth on the return journey.
As he left the wagons and went toward the mouth of the pass, he heard soft, padding sounds behind him, and knew that the wolves were returning, almost on his heels. He looked back once, and saw a pair of fiery82 red eyes which he felt must belong to the monster, the timber wolf, but Dick was no longer under the uncanny spell of the night and the place; he was rejoicing too much in his new treasures, like a miser83 who has just added a great sum to his hoard84, to feel further awe of the wolves, the darkness, and a new battlefield.
Dick's second pack was heavier than his first, but as before, he trod lightly. He took a different path when he left the pass, and here in the moonlight, which was now much brighter, he saw the trace of wheels on the earth. The trace ran off irregularly through the short bushes and veered85 violently to and fro like the path of a drunken man. Dick inferred at once that it had been made, not by a wagon entering the pass, but by one leaving it, and in great haste. No doubt the horses or mules86 had been running away in fright at the firing.
Dick's curiosity was excited. He wished to see what had become of that wagon. The trail continued to lead through the short bushes that covered the plain just before entering the pass, and then turned off sharply to the right, where it led to an abrupt87 little canyon88 or gully about ten feet deep. The gully also was lined with bushes, and at first Dick could see nothing else, but presently he made out a wagon lying on its side. No horses or mules were there; undoubtedly89, they had torn themselves loose from the gear in time to escape the fall.
Dick laid down his pack and descended90 to the wagon. He believed that in such a place it had escaped the plundering91 hands of the hasty Sioux, and his belief was correct. The wagon, a large one, was loaded with all the articles necessary for the passage of the plains. Although much tossed about by the fall, nothing was hurt.
Here was a treasure-trove, indeed! Dick's sudden sense of wealth was so overpowering that he felt a great embarrassment92. How was he to take care of such riches? He longed at that moment for the strength of twenty men, that he might take it all at once and go over the mountain to Albert.
It was quite a quarter of an hour before he was able to compose himself thoroughly93. Then he made a hasty examination of the wagon, so far as its position allowed. He found in it a rifle of the same pattern as that used by Albert and himself, a sixteen-shot repeater, the most advanced weapon of the time, and a great quantity of cartridges to fit. There was also two of the new revolvers, with sufficient cartridges, another ax, hatchets94, saws, hammers, chisels95, and a lot of mining tools. The remaining space in the wagon was occupied by clothing, bedding, provisions, and medicines.
Dick judged that the wolves could not get at the wagon as it lay, and leaving it he began his third ascent96 of the slope. He found Albert sound asleep in the pine alcove with his rifle beside him. He looked so peaceful that Dick was careful not to awaken97 him. He stored the second load of treasure in the alcove, and, wrapping one of the heavy blankets around himself, slept heavily.
He told Albert the next day of the wagon in the gully, and nothing could keep him from returning in the morning for salvage98. He worked there two or three days, carrying heavy loads up the mountain, and finally, when it was all in their den, he and Albert felt equipped for anything. Nor had the buffalo robe been neglected. It was spread over much of the treasure. Albert, meanwhile, had assumed the functions of cook, and he discharged them with considerable ability. His strength was quite sufficient to permit of his collecting firewood, and he could fry bacon and make coffee and tea beautifully. But they were very sparing of the coffee and tea, as they also were of the flour, although their supplies of all three of these were greatly increased by the wagon in the gully. In fact, the very last thing that Dick had brought over the mountain was a hundred-pound sack of flour, and after accomplishing this feat81 he had rested a long time.
Both boys felt that they had been remarkably99 fortunate while this work was going on. One circumstance, apparently100 simple in itself, had been a piece of great luck, and that was the absence of rain. It was not a particularly rainy country, but a shower could have made them thoroughly miserable101, and, moreover, would have been extremely dangerous for Albert. But nights and days alike remained dry and cool, and as Albert breathed the marvelous balsamic air he could almost feel himself transfused102 with its healing property. Meanwhile, the color in his cheeks was steadily103 deepening.
"We've certainly had good fortune," said Dick.
"Aided by your courage and strength," said Albert. "It took a lot of nerve to go down there in that pass and hunt for what the Sioux might have left behind."
Dick disclaimed104 any superior merit, but he said nothing of the many tremors105 that he felt while performing the great task.
An hour or two later, Albert, who was hunting through their belongings106, uttered a cry of joy on finding a little package of fishhooks. String they had among their stores, and it was easy enough to cut a slim rod for a pole.
"Now I can be useful for something besides cooking," he said. "It doesn't require any great strength to be a fisherman, and I'm much mistaken if I don't soon have our table supplied with trout107."
There was a swift creek108 farther down the slope, and, angling with much patience, Albert succeeded in catching109 several mountain trout and a larger number of fish of an unknown species, but which, like the trout, were very good to eat.
Albert's exploit caused him intense satisfaction, and Dick rejoiced with him, not alone because of the fish, but also because of his brother's triumph.
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canyon
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