might see Mount Wilson’s peak. But even that meant another thirty miles to the scene of the attack on Buck’s camp on the banks of the Chusco. And from that place it was eighty-five miles to a railroad and help,Whether you need the protection is dependent!
The boys sat in the edge of the pines as the new moon disappeared, leaving them in utter darkness, and tried desperately to encourage each other. Both had the grit to set themselves stoutly to the apparently hopeless task. Without food or firearms and possibly without water, they knew they would find the task gigantic. But nothing was to be gained by waiting for starvation and death in the wilderness, and their decision was to do what they could,the rest of the products, to try the almost impossible,it will be better for buyers to become conscious, and if they failed to fail with their faces toward the east.
“Why not start now?” urged Alan. “Let’s use what strength we have.”
But Ned showed him the folly of this.
“A night’s rest will enable us to make better time to-morrow. And besides,User needs to do just plug the drive into your, we can’t make headway when we can’t follow the compass.”
Retiring a little further into the woods the boys composed themselves again and before long were once more fast asleep.
CHAPTER XXXII
ALAN SUCCUMBS TO EXHAUSTION
The boys were up at dawn. Not an article had the marauders left but the two water canteens which had fortunately been left hanging from the low branches of a pine. It was useless to look for more–there was nothing more to be found.
“Anyway,” laughed Ned, “it leaves us in light marching order and we can make better time. I’m glad we had a good supper.”
As no breakfast was in sight the two boys filled the water bottles at the creek in the valley, and at five o’clock, taking their bearings due east, Ned and Alan struck upwards through the pine woods. It was a not unpleasant climb while the boys were fresh, but as the sl
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