Evidently he had some business down there, but, like most of his kind, was not inclined to make known his secrets when the necessity did not exist.
"What a tremendous climb that was! And it must have been dangerous to pick your way down the side of the canyon." "I s'pose it would have been if I'd done it, but I didn't." "Then the canyon cannot be as extended as we thought ?" "That depends on how long you thought it was.

As near as I can find out, it is between sixty and seventy miles." Not wishing to persist in speaking in riddles, Hank added: "Howsumever, though it's as long as I said, there's a break not fur away, where the banks ain't more than a few feet above the stream.

The break isn't large, but it don't have to be.

You obsarved that the stream runs into the mountains.

It seems to be making a dive fur t'other side, as if it meant to make fur the Pacific, but it gives it up and comes back after a while, and finds its way into the Wind River, and so on to the Big Horn and the Missouri." "Then you came up the canyon from the break and went back again ?" "I didn't say that.