Send in your men but don't come back yourself until you've found that man who went down the canyon on horseback." When the last rider was gone in the darkness, the Ranger said to the artist, "Come, Aaron, you must get some rest.

There's not a thing more that can be done, until daylight." Aaron King protested.

But, strong as he was, the unusual exertion of his hours in the saddle, together with his racking anxiety, had told upon muscles and nerves.

His face, pale and drawn, gave the lie to his words that he was not tired.
"You must rest, man," said Brian Oakley, shortly.

"There may be days of this ahead of us.