Chivalry.
Chapter.
12 Through the Mountains—Continued
27 The End
The Cave in the Mountain.
Chapter I.
A Strange Guide.
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“Well, if he doesn’t beat any one I ever heard of!”
Mickey O’Rooney and Fred Munson were stretched on the Apache blanket, carefully watching the eyes of the wild beast whenever they showed themselves, and had been talking in guarded tones. The Irishman had been silent for several minutes, when the lad asked him a question and received no answer. When the thing was repeated several times, he crawled over to his friend, and, as he expected, found him sound asleep.
This was not entirely involuntary upon the part of Mickey. He had shown himself, on more than one occasion, to be a faithful sentinel, when serious danger threatened; but he believed that there was nothing to be feared on the present occasion, and, as he was sorely in need of sleep, he concluded to indulge while the opportunity was given him.
“Sleep away, old fellow,” said Fred. “You seem to want it so bad that I won’t wake you up again.”
The boy’s curiosity having been thoroughly aroused, all tendency to slumber upon his part had departed, and he determined that if there was any way by which he could profit any by that wolf, he would do it.
“He may hang around here for a day or two,” he mused, as he heard the
