riders
kept their senses awake, talking only a little, and then in guarded
voices.

As they galloped along the sun rose, and the day promised to be as warm
and pleasant as those which had preceded it. The sky was obscured only by
a few fleecy clouds, while the deep blue beyond was as beautiful as that
of Italy. Drawing near the cave in the mountain, they pulled their horses
down to a walk and carefully guided them into the softest places, so as to
make the noise of their hoofs as slight as possible. Nothing occurred
until they were a short distance beyond the dangerous spot, when Mickey
spoke.

"Do you obsarve that stream there?" he asked, pointing to a rather deep
brook which ran across the pass, and lost itself in the rocks upon the
opposite side. "Well, that's the water that comes through the cave over
the cascade, and that I expicted to swim out by, and I'm going to find out
what me chances were."




CHAPTER XIII.

IN THE NICK OF TIME.


Leaving his mustang in charge of Fred, the Irishman turned to the right,
and followed the stream into the rocks. The course was so winding that he
speedily disappeared from sight. The boy, who was compelled to sit still
and await his return, at perhaps the most dangerous portion of the road,
felt anything but comfortable over the erratic proceeding of his friend.
But, fortunately, the latter had been gone but a short time when he
reappeared, hurrying forward as if somebody was at his heels.

"It's all right," he remarked, as he sprang into the saddle, took up the
reins, and started on. "I think the Apaches are there, though I can't be
sartin; but I found out what I wanted to l'arn."

Then he explained that he followed up the stream to the place where it
came from beneath the rocks, which formed a part of the wall of the cave,
where a curious fact attracted his attention. In its passage beneath the
stone the tunnel widened and flattened, so that, where it shot forth to
the sunlight again, its width was some twenty feet, and its dept

John Holland Rose (1855-1942) was an influential English historian who wrote a famous biography of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and also wrote a history of Europe, entitled The Development of the European Nations. Rose was the basis for C. P. Snows fictional character M. H. L. Gay (see Years of Hope: Cambridge, Colonial Administrator in the South Seas, and Cricket by Philip Snow.)

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