We left the trail, and to conceal ourselves took to the brush or dry arroyos as a protection against alarming the quarry.

These were occasionally broken by smaller tributary arroyos of the same sort.

Long before Bronson ventured to return to his mountain camp, Lorry was riding the hill trails again as spring loosened the upland snows and filled the cañons and arroyos with a red turbulence of waters bearing driftwood and dead leaves.