We can fasten the horses behind these bushes, and no one will guess we are here." She assented, and they dismounted.

The man cut an opening into a clump of thick growth with his knife, and there they fastened the weary horses, well hidden from sight if any one chanced that way.

The girl lay down a few feet away in a spot almost entirely surrounded by sage-brush which had reached an unusual height and made a fine hiding-place.

Just outside the entrance of this natural chamber the man lay down on a fragrant bed of sage-brush.

He had gathered enough for the girl first, and spread out the old coat over it; and she had dropped asleep almost as soon as she lay down.