Monday Noon
If I could , I would have started for Trigger then and there . I can not say how sinister the bright moonlight appeared to me as it streamed in through chinks in the logs during the night . This morning my panic seems excessive ; still I am going to Trigger at once with Philip to guide me . _ Monday Noon . _ Let me try to tell , if I can do so , the tale of these dreadful twenty-four hours . We crossed over a high gap and down into the head-waters of Powderhorn , and thence to the mouth of Trigger . Just as we reached it , a man riding down looked intently at me .