en."

"Same here!" put in Floyd. "I don't believe a Yaqui touches water from
the time he's born until he dies."

In order to give everyone a chance to rest, it was decided to camp for
a few days in a favorable spot, which was found a few miles from where
the Indians had made their last stand--a final stand for many, as more
than a dozen were killed.

The others were sent back under guard as prisoners, Mike among them,
scowling blackly as he was led away. A scout was sent to the nearest
place where there was a telegraph station, to send the good news back
to Diamond X.

"And now we can take it easy," observed Bud as he with his cowboy
cousins and the newly rescued captives enjoyed the first real meal
without anticipations of a fight immediately after it.

"You must have had a dreadful time, Rosemary," said Dick, whose arm was
in a sling.

"Well, it seemed so at the time, and yet I want to laugh when I think
how I fooled those Indians just by screaming."

"It isn't the first time you've brought help by screaming!" laughed
Bud. "I remember once when I tried to kiss you--"

"Tut! Tut!" laughed Rosemary. "That's past history."

And so, in time, was the raid of the Yaquis. In due season Rosemary
and her brother, with our boy heroes reached Diamond X, parting from
the soldier escort. And once at the ranch, which had been their
objective before the kidnapping, the visitors were royally entertained.

"Well, it was the best adventure we ever had," declared Nort, and his
brother agreed with him. But it was not to be the last of the exciting
happenings in which they were to be involved.

For these were lads of action, ever in the van when there was a chance
for a fight. And those who wish to follow the further adventures of
Bud, Nort and Dick, may do so in the next volume of this series, which
will be entitled "The Boy Ranchers in the Flood; or Saving the Stock at
Diamond X."

In that we shall see how they fared when again called on to act their
parts in the face of danger. But, for the present we shall leave them
to enjoy the company of Rosemary and Floyd at Diamond X and in Happy
Valley.

THE END

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