But we would better make sure." It was easy to do this.

Hunting around until a chip from one of the boulders was found, Jack tossed it across the abyss.

It fell as he expected, proving that, wonderfully deceptive as is the atmosphere of the West, it cannot mislead in instances like that which confronted them.
"That makes it right.

I am not afraid to make the leap; are you ?" "Not a bit; but wait." Near them lay a stone, so large that it required their united strength to move it.

By hard work they rolled it to the edge of the canyon and tumbled it over, carefully watching its descent.