The Broncho Rider Boys Along the Border Or, The Hidden Treasure of the Zuni Medicine Man

They were well on their journey, with the Zuni village many miles distant. Donald and Adrian had found little difficulty in climbing to the top of the cliff after reaching the l...

"Oh! the brazen face of that old rascal, Braddon!" muttered Billie. "_Please_ let me give him my compliments in his shoulder, Adrian! I'm looking along the barrel of my trusty g...

Billie began to tire of lying around, and once more started out to investigate things for himself. He carried his little kodak along with him, for there were a couple of picture...

As the other beckoned to him, and started a conversation, Adrian found himself irresistibly impelled presently to tell the chief what he thought about such a scheme as the one h...

"That's right, it never rains but it pours," Billie went on to say, as he fondled his Marlin repeating rifle, which had of late proven its value in many ways; one of which accou...

Broncho Billie said this as he rode close behind his two chums. Several days had passed since that thrilling adventure with the rattlesnakes of the rocky den; and the boys had m...

"Well, it's a little tough, but all the same I like it," was Billie's opinion of the venison, after it had been cooked, and they sat around making a meal of it.

At first poor Billie was almost wild with the fear that swept over him, when he realized his true condition, and that he was lost in that sand storm in the heart of an Arizona d...

In fact, all of them had been struck with the similarity of the crooked handwriting that they saw upon the soiled piece of paper before them, and that which had been upon the wa...

"I really and truly believe that's it, coming along at last; and say, I give you my solemn affidavy right now, that I never saw daybreak as thankfully as this same morning!"

Billie was saying this, as he had done half a dozen times before, while he himself and two chums were seated on the pile of rocks that overlooked the little plaza where the Zuni...

"My! but he must be a kind of sensitive fellow, if that little thing'd make him sidle out of sight!" observed the stout chum, dejectedly. "One second he was there, all right, an...

"Oh! Billie's fallen down in that rattlesnake den!" gasped Adrian, even while he and Donald were jumping over the rocks as fast as their legs would carry them, and headed in the...

"Of course he is!" echoed Donald, in disgust; "say, how long did you expect a slick Injun to stay around, waiting for you to make up your mind to shoot?"

Even as he dropped flat, and felt that lithe body pass swiftly over him, Adrian heard a shout. Of course this must mean his chums had made the alarming discovery that he was up...

"If we hang out here any length of time, Adrian, we'll try and come back to this place again, and see if we can make a discovery," suggested Donald, presently.

All of them were staring at the little placard by now, even Adrian feeling almost as much astonishment as the kneeling Billie. Indeed, what they saw written there in a crude man...

"It don't seem to be any use," observed Broncho Billie, after they had called out invitingly several times, without getting any sign of a reply; nor seeing so much as the first...

For once Billie was perfectly willing that his chum should undertake to do all the talking. He felt himself that he might not be equal to such a tremendous undertaking as handli...

Both of the others of course heard all that Donald said. Adrian only smiled, and nodded his head, as though the idea rather took his fancy; but Billie put up his broad shoulders...

That night saw many strange things going on in the Zuni village, to all of which our three young friends gave close attention; for they were deeply interested in the quaint cere...

They passed a fairly comfortable night, in camp there by the spring. Nothing occurred to cause an alarm, though Donald and Adrian would not allow the camp to go unguarded, and t...

When Donald said this in a low but thrilling tone, Billie drew himself up into as small a space as possible, and strained his eyes in the endeavor to discover for himself any da...

"There, what do you say to that now, Billie?" exclaimed Donald, as he turned to see the fat chum staring at the snake, with whitened cheeks, and a horrified expression on his pl...

Billie was also a little bit worried for fear that Braddon and his two companions might not have gone far away; but, feeling so badly toward the three chums for having nipped th...

It was with considerable difficulty that the two chums made forward progress under such a handicap as confronted them. The medicine man knew every foot of the passage he was fol...

Billie wanted to go with them very much; not that he felt any great desire to come into close contact with that grim looking old medicine man; but he disliked being left alone w...

Whatever the other boys may have thought about it, knowing that Billie could not have gone a great while without food, they understood his weakness too well to make any remark.

"It's all right, fellows," said Donald, as he joined his chums; "the chief remembers our foreman at the mine, and is glad to have us here. Fact is, he gave me to understand that...

"We'll stay for a while, anyhow. You know our saddle chum, Adrian, is getting just wild to take a run away up into that Northern range country in Wyoming, where in times gone by...