Unexplored!

ere peering at the huge bon-fire by which Norri

them. "But I'm not a-goin' to ask you a single word till you've et," and he proceeded to build up a

de in the night wind had fairly stiffened their joints. First Long Lester administered a quart apiece of scalding tea, then i

leep himself when night came, they would wait till dawn to search for him and the Mexicans. While

ore him!-A chunk of rock had fallen from the roof into the passageway. When the alarming swaying motion and the thunder of the bowlder's fall had subsided, and he had relighted the torch, (which ha

ey had searched the cave thoroughly, and had he not left his bandanna at one turn, his handkerchief at another, and the end of a freshly charred torch at a third? Besides, (he smiled grimly), if his own party did not find him, the Mexicans might. Or if

h boy to be reasonably philosophical,-probably the biggest factor, after all,-was Nature's medicine, his extreme physical fatigue. Thrusting his hat through a narrow crevice so that it would be s

bling frantically for a match, he yelled for help with all the power of his trained voice. (And the sound echoed back and forth.) At first Norris an

ut on a higher level,-some scratches on the rocks and a heel print in the scanty soil that told the old mountaineer as plain as words that that was the way Radcliffe had come. Every heel in the party was different, one having Hungarian hob-nails set in a semi-circle, another a solid design in the same nails, a third the larger hobs, a fourth none. He knew the differences in size and the ones that were worn deeper on the ins

st or not, they could not tell. The Mexicans evidently knew the cave and they had been near the southern end of it. Though Long Lester could find no trace of their footprints at

burros the Mexicans had left near the northern cave mouth had disappeared, bu

track of law breakers as of fires. It would be an extraordinary thing if the careless camper should escape detection, for the air men can spy them out as easily a

ngers were kept busy fighting the fires that would break out

ittle Spanish 'plane. Would Radcliffe let them off the fire-fighting? He would, though he could not give official sanction to their plan. It was enoug

ey would go back into the cave and lo

ir distance from the whirlwind of fire-heated air, for they were flying low. The most minu

bout every two hours, rested awhile, and finally went into camp about four in the afternoon, intending to take a look in the night to see if the fugitives would betray themselves by a bon-fire. They camped in a meadow where they had seen somethin

d carry the spring water by the folding canvas pailful to fill it. It wo

nes was wonderful. A flint arrowhead buried in the soil they excavated told its tale of Ind

anyway?" asked Ted. "Have you

. I'm no professor." And he turned a former laugh on Ted. "Tell you what, Old Top, once we get these fire bugs l

glacier, too, and see what it l

ver tried it! W

great way to teach geog

reat way to go

just the two of us," sighed Ted ungramm

supplies every few d

ts they had searched for any bit of bone that might lie amid the shale or imbedded in strata the edges of which might be seen on the face of a sun-baked bluff. The summer before, a group of geology men from a rival University had actually camped within a hundred yards of what was later discove

ck, each piece being numbered as it was removed from the cliff as an aid to fitting it together again. Then with hammer and chisel the delicate feat of cutting away the rock and leaving the bone exposed was slowly and painstakingly accomplished. Thus have the bones buried before ever man trod the earth been made to

nstance, if its hind legs are disproportionately

pugnacious tendency on his part, and the solidity of his bones are found to-day in either a very sluggish animal or a partially aquatic one. The shape and rapid taper of the tail vertebr? indicates a rather short tail, round rather than flat,-ill adapted f

ess due to the carbonization of the animal matter. And impressions have been l

, and the giant monsters of his time,-of the upthrust of the Rocky Mountains, cutting off the moist sea breeze from the marshy country to the Eastward and making desert of it. This mad

eled,-the pteranodon, that giant lizard, largest of flying creatures even in Mesozoic age,

heir ancestral archeopteryx, no larger than a crow whose front legs metamorphosed t

hear the Geological Survey man's pronouncement on his find. Norris chipped and chipped

il dinosaur,-

ge educatio