Then it dips on a slight inclination, and evidently runs back toward the range.

An easy drive for an adit.
Stayed there two days, Verneille and I.Quite sure about that gold." Weston's face grew intent.
"You recorded it ?" "We staked a claim, and started back; but Verneille couldn't find a deer, and when we first hit the valley provisions were running out.
There was a mist in the ranges, and whichever way we headed we brought up on crags and precipices.

Then we went up to look for another way across and got into the snow.

I never knew how I got out--or where Verneille went, but when I struck a prospector's camp--he wasn't with me." The track-grader nodded.

He had been born among the ranges, and knew that the prospectors who went out on the gold trail did not invariably come back.