But the scout and his sister went on and on, following the star.
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE AWAKENING.
Buffalo Bill shivered, and opened his eyes.
“Dell!” he exclaimed; “Cayuse!”
No answer was returned, and slowly the scout’s faculties began drifting out of a maze of experiences, trying to eliminate false impressions and hold to the true.
First, where was he?
He was sitting on a stone. Before him was a wagon-trail, crawling along an eight-foot shelf.
At the outer edge of the shelf the mountain fell away in a dizzy precipice; the inner edge was a perpendicular wall, with the stone on which he was sitting at its foot.