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Updated: May 22, 2025
"After riding along Top Notch Trail for a time, we met the trapper and bargained for the furs, then started back by a new trail he told us of. It led past Pagoda Peak, and just as we got to the base of the peak and discovered the down-trail, the blizzard came swooping upon us without warning.
Before Polly could climb the slope to wave her hat, she saw Mike riding up behind the party and then go on before them down the trail leading to the cave. Polly was kept busy with answering the girls who stood at the cave entrance, and in calling to her parents and friends who were approaching as fast as the down-trail would permit.
"Did you say the miners who came up ahead of us to-day were in Bill's custody, Daddy?" "Ah didn't say anything; but now Ah'll tell you-all that they are shipped safely to a place where they can do no harm." "Oh! Did Bill go down the Trail with them?" continued Polly. "No, Bill's man went down-trail to watch in case of any new trouble." "See here, father! Out with your secret!
So, after much arguing and explaining, it was decided that every one should be ready to start down-trail at the earliest streak of daylight. That night the girls and Mrs. Brewster slept on the pine-beds or at least the city girls slept, while Polly and her mother rested even as they waited for the first warning call from the guard, who sat by the fire that was started to keep away the wild beasts.
A glance or two at the sheer thirty-foot wall of the upstep in the bed of the main cañon would convince the most astute of cowboys that not even a puma could go up that way. At the edge of the trail the Apache took off the hoof-pads and returned to the cage. He was being hoisted up the cliff when Lennon loped after Slade down-trail around a sharp bend in the cañon.
They are up on Top Notch now, scouting for the first symptoms of a slide." Polly turned white as she heard the story, but she still had control of her voice, so she whispered: "Why don't we-all start down-trail to-night? Why lose time cooking supper, and have the men up there watching for the trouble?" "Mike says we are safer in this cave than on the trail.
Then we rolled our own coverings into the bundle and started on down-trail. But the floods of melting snow caused wash-outs and it was risky going. When we reached the first Park never a sign of snow was there, and the only result of that mountain blizzard was an added flood of water pouring down the gulleys to the bottoms and valley."
After he had collected an arroba of the precious metal, winning a profit of nearly $5,000, the heads of the lightened mules were turned down-trail again. Where the head of the Guarico River springs from a great gash in the mountain-side, Luis halted the train. "Half a day's journey from here, Senor," said he, "is the village of Tacuzama, which we have never visited.
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