He jumped over on horseback, thinking such a death preferable to savage torture, but singularly enough, both he and his horse escaped unhurt.] His purpose evidently, was to satisfy the warriors that Sam was certainly killed, so that they might pursue him no further.

Whether he was yet alive or not, Weatherford himself had no means of knowing.

The last he had seen of him was as he went over the precipice, sitting bolt upright on his horse, grasping his rifle and looking straight ahead.

He heard a splash in the water below, after which everything was still..