"I don't know. But I'm going to find out!
"There's no need of waiting till morning.
"Come on, everybody. We'll go down to where the first fires were."
Quickly the desperadoes started, for they had ill liked the thought of leaving their pal to his fate.
With Texas Jack and Wild Bill at his side, the bandit chieftain advanced till he reached the heaps of broken boulders that had come so near to being their death a short time before.
As the bandits gazed up at the top of the wall of rock, Texas remarked:
"It's a cinch, Jess, those bucks have some trail up the cliff. We didn't find any place to scale it, back where we come from, and by the looks of the wall ahead, there isn't any break, so they couldn't have got to the end of the canyon and back on top in such a short time.
"That being so, it means there's some path near here."
"Then we'll look for it. Get busy, boys. Comanche Tony's life may depend on our haste."