21/61 Leave the pack here, you'd better, and my saddle. You can sleep, turn about, one watching the horses, and come on down when you see me coming back." It was five hours later when the watchers on Hardscrabble saw the Johnson party turn south, up the valley between barb and shank of the mountain; an hour after that Zurich rejoined them, as they repacked at the trail foot, and made his report: "I couldn't hear where they're going; but it is somewhere west or westerly, and it's a day farther on. Say, it's a good thing I went over there. What do you suppose that fiend Johnson is going to do? You fellows all know there's only one way to get out of that Fishhook Valley--unless you turn round and come back the way you go in ?" "I don't," said Bill. |