Show The Eagles Eagle's Wing Copyright 1924 by Little Brown Drown Co By By B. B M. M BOWER I Continued from yesterday Johnny Buffalo id not argue tho the point lIe He seemed con content lent to gaze at the hills hll's in the effort to locate old landmarks And as for Rawley Rawley Rawley Raw- Raw ley himself hi his mind was wholly I absorbed by his mission Into the I country which he had dreamed o of for moro more than a a. month There had I been some delay in getting started First he lie could ot 1 well curtail the i f length of his visit with his mother 1 in of ot the fact that they seemed to have little in common I Then he lie thought it wise wise to make I the trip to KIngman and report upon a property there which was I about to be sold for a sized good-sized fortune The Job netted him several several sev sev- eral hundred dollars which he was likely to need Wherefore he had of ot necessity had plenty of ot time to dream over his own fortune which might be lying in the hills hills uIn In the deft cleft of ot the jagged rocks rocks waiting waiting j for him to find It V Just at first he had been somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what skeptical Fifty years is a along along along I long time for gold to remain hidden In the hills of ot a mining country so rich as Nevada without some prospector prospector prospector pros pros- I discovering it But Johnny Buffalo believed Whether his belief belief be be- lief lieC was based solely upon hp hi I faith in hi his sergeant Rawle Rawley could I j not determine But Johnn Johnny Buffalo BUC- BUC falo had a very plausible argument argument ment in favor of the gold remaining remaining remain remain- Int ing where Grandfather King had left It in the underground stream The fact that Rawley Hawley was exhorted exhort exhort- I ed to take victuals for the Jour jour- ne ney meant a distance of a good many miles perhaps which they must trav travel l from from El Dorado Then they were to go to the top of ot avery a avery very high mountain and pass over on the other side Johnny Buffalo argued that the tho start was to be I made from flOm El EI Dorado merely be because bet he- he beI I t cause the mountain would be most I II visible from that point It would I I be rough country he lie conten contended ed I The code mentioned cliffs and great he heaps ps of stones and clefts in Jagged rocks with a deep V pit Hid from I I I the eyes of all an living for tho the final goal He thought It more than likely that Grandfather Kings King gold goldmine goldmine goldmine mine was still undiscovered And Ami toward the last Rawley had been much more Inclined to believe him He TIe had read diligently all the We mining min ing Information he could V get conI concerning concerning con- con I this particular dis district as 1 far back as the records went NoI No- No o- o I j I where was any mention made of or such a 3 rich placer discovery on onor onor on- on I or In In-a In a mountain I He was thinking all Vail this as he drove the devious t and turnings of the canyon road foad dad Another An Another Another An An- other mine or two they passed then nosing carefully down clown a hill bill steeper than th the they turned sharply to the left and Were In InS the I final discomfort of the wash A I veritable sweat box it was on this particular hot afternoon In u-i July I The baked baled barren hills rose close on either cither side Like a deep gravelly river bed long I since gone dry the wash sloped steeply down clown toward tho the Colorado Hawley Rawley could readily understand now the solicitude o ot the store- store I j I keeper The Tho return was quite likely likely like like- I ly to be a time of tribulation He had expected to come upon a 1 camp of some sort But the canyon canyon can can- I yon you opened opened bleakly to the riv river r the hot sand of ot Its floor sloping steeply to meet the lapping waves of the turgid stream At the waters water's waters water's waters water's wa wa- ter's edge edges on the first high ground of ot the bank were ruins of an old stamp mill which might have been built ten tea years ago or a hundred so so far as looks went lIe He left leU the car and climbed upon I the cement floor of ot the old mill V What at first had seemed to be bo a I greater extension of oC the plant he lie lienow now discovered was a walled roadway roadway road road- i way winding up to the tho crest of ot the hill bill lies lIb swung about arid Id gazed to the northward as the Bible code had commanded that he should travel A mile or so up tho the river were the walls of a deep canyon canon Black Canyon according to his map Farther awa away set back from front the river a mile perhaps two miles a a. sharp-pointed sharp hill shouldered up above its fellows This seemed to tobe tobe tobe be the highest mountain so so far as ashe ashe ashe he could see in that direction If It that were the great and mountain described In tho the code I their journey would not be so long longna longas as na Johnny Buffalo anticipated I I I I I I I The ne nearer view was desolation I simmering in the heat A hundred yards away on the opposite bank of the wash the forlorn ruins of ofa ofa a cabin or two gave melancholy evidence evidence evi evi- I dence deuce that here men had once loved loved- worked and laughed and perchance He lie looked at the furnace furnace furnace fur fur- nace yawning beside him and at atthe atthe atthe the mudd muddy water swirling in drunken drunk drunk- en haste just below It might have been just hero here that his grandfather had landed from the tile steamboat Gila and had watched the tle lovely young half-breed half girl in the cro crowd d cometo come cometo to welcome the boat and passenger ger gers He Ho started when Johnny Buffalo spoke at his elbow v How the In Indian IndIan Indian In- In dian had reached that spot unheard and unseen Rawley did not l know now Johnny Buffalo was pointing to to- the north V V VI V I think th that t high mountain is where we must go he said It Itis Itis Itis is one days day's travel We Ve can go to today today today to- to day when the sun is behind the mountains and we can walk walle until the stars are here Very early In Inthe inthe inthe the morning we vie can walk wall again and before it is too hot we can reach the trees where it will be cool I V Ve We have hae a lot of of grub and ana things in the car Rawley ob oh- oh It seems to me that it itI wouldn't be be a bad plan to carry the stuff up here and cache it I somewhere in this tilts old mill saUl Then show up If your our friend should there wont won't b be so much for lim to steal And If we wo want to mal make e a I camp on the tho mountain we can canI come down he e. e and carr carry the stuff I up as s we ive need d it TI Theres There's re a nun hun I tired dred e dollars dollars' Ia worth rth of outfit in that car Johnny he added fru fru- I fru-I gall gaily gally Im all fog tor keeping it for ourselves I Buffalo looked at the Johnny I mountain and he lie looked down at atthe atthe I Ithe j the car car and and then then- grunted a reluctant reluctant I I tant acquiescence Rawley laughed i j jat at him V i all right right the mountain mountS he bantered bantered bantered ban ban- I wont won't run away overnight slapping his hand down on Johnny Buffalos Buffalo's shoulder with an affectionate familiarity bred in the past month Ive been Juggling trails since that car ar over the desert sunrise and I wouldn't object to taking it easy for a a. few hours Johnny Buffalo said no more but began helping to unload the car It was he who chose the trail by which they carried the loads to the upper level floored cement-floored where He lie chose no tracks would show I a hiding place beneath the wreckage wreckage wreck wreck- age of ot some machinery that had fallen against the bank in such a j way that an open space was left I beneath large enough to hold their outfit j A huge protested stridently dently against being disturbed Rawley drew his automatic meanIng meaning mean mean- ing to shoot it but Johnny Buffalo Buffalo falo stopped him with a warning gesture and himself killed the snake with a rock While it wasI was Still writhing with a smashed head he picked it up by the tail took a I long step or 01 two and heaved it Into the river grinning his satisfaction over a deed well done r Rawley standing ha hack watching him had a swift vision of the old Indian paddling solemnly about the I yarl yari near the west wing There re he was al an incongruous figure I amongst the and the roses I I Here altho although gh he had discarded j I the showy fringed buckskin for forI i I the orthodox brown khaki clothes clothes' of I the desert ho he somehow fitted Into his surroundings and became a part part of oC the tho wilderness Itself Johnny Johnny John John- ny Buffalo who assuredly coming into his own Co Continued tomorrow 0 0 c |