Don Miguel Zarate looked at him sadly.
"That is true," he said; "he is happy now; let us attend to ourselves. Speak then, Valentine: what is to be done? We are ready."
"Good," said Valentine; "it is time for our courage to return, for the hardest part of our task is not yet done; it is nothing to have crossed that barranca if our trail can be found here, and that I wish to avoid."
"Hum!" Don Pablo remarked; "that is very difficult, not to say impossible."
"Nothing is impossible with strength, courage, and skill. Listen attentively to what I am about to say to you."
"We will."
"The barranca, on this side of the mountain, is not peaked as it is on the side we have just left."
"That is true," said Don Miguel.
"About twenty yards below us you perceive a platform, close to which begins an inextricable forest, descending to the end of the precipice."
"Yes."