Unexplored!

bread and coffee before the Ranger, then dipping up a bowl of soup. She looked fagged

rain!" she sighed, "

e agreed. "Haven't had

k with more supplies,"

ghed Rosa drowsily from her blankets. "But they work like lum

But by now it was dark, and the task doubly difficult. "If it wasn't for them boys being most likely just plumb panicky from

ave happened in the hours since he had last seen his charges! His imagi

the main ridge that towered above them, patches of snow that gleame

f the turn, was becoming impassable wit

n the canyon side, and the very bowlder they were on tilted till they had to make a quick leap for it. It was just one of the slight earthquake s

w in a theoretical way what to do when a snow-slide threatened, and with that lightning speed with which our minds work in an e

ck-slide would flood down canyon till it came to a turn, then hurtle off in fine spray-on the side of the curve! (It a

own at them. Down 3,000 feet of canyon the crusted snows of what was still spring at

aped by the ski

us up somethin' turrible!"

t away, root and branch. He had seen many of these scars, which in later years had become a

lides, the forest still growing between stripes. For the ste

west slope; for on the North, away f

. Its roar had been heard for miles. Frost-cracked from the solid granite, the side rock

air was filled with blinding snow,-not that from the

glamor over the scene. "What do you figure ma

give it to you all in a breath. But I'll

set up, and worse scared, but it was all over in a minute and they were only a degree more uncomfortably damp than they had been before. Suddenly Ted gave an

A fossil, all right," Ace agreed. "But that isn't a human footprint, even if there had been men that size. That

his fossil out and s

ongratulatory slap

ill finally the roof was so low that they had to go on hands and knees. Then the bank became so narrow that Ace slipped off into the unknown depths

Ted. "Do you know, we could swim this if we

on. But how abo

er seen any one smoke a cigarette when

trie

. Hav

swim in darkness. An increasing roar told them that they were nearing white water, possibly the outlet, and just as the current from a b

a faint glow, as through a sheet of

ght they were behind a waterfall. But a closer approach showed them that it shone through leaves of plants that grew just outside, wh

des of their soles. But by holding hands and clinging with all their might, while they propitiated the law of gravity by leaning thei

straight into the cave mouth. But where they wer

chilled to the marrow now in the night wind that blew down canyon, famished, footsore, and

ld keep him from rolling. "Why, this is funny!" for there was no sign of the stream a few yards beyond the cave mouth. They were at the

ection of his pointing arm. In the canyon below them a bo

xicans," Ted

," urged the other. "Thunder! Would

just as if it was the Mexi

good fire," Ace shiv

clear through the cave on a higher l

Ped

Ped

uld it be?" they c

was n