Get your rifle out." Travel was resumed then, with Roy a little in advance of the pack-train.
Presently he dismounted, threw his bridle, and cautiously peered ahead.
Then, turning, he waved his sombrero.

The pack-animals halted in a bunch.

Dale beckoned for the girls to follow and rode up to Roy's horse.
This point, Helen saw, was at the top of an intersecting canuon.

Dale dismounted, without drawing his rifle from its saddle-sheath, and approached Roy.
"Buck an' two does," he said, low-voiced.

"An' they've winded us, but don't see us yet....