Chapter 21 Summary

When Chee manages to get Cowboy Dashee to the pool beside the Salt Woman Shrine, there is still no sign of Bernie. Chee leaves Cowboy to wait for the rescue helicopter, while he goes to search for Bernie. When Chee asks Cowboy if he has enough water for the wait, Cowboy nods toward the towering, anvil-shaped thunderheads \ building overhead and says he doesn't think they will have to worry much longer about having enough water.

Chee quickly finds Bernie's tracks and follows them, but he becomes concerned when he sees two additional sets of tracks along the same trail. He follows the tracks to the entrance to a wide side canyon and finds yet another set of tracks of small moccasins. What alarms the sergeant most is that there are no tracks coming back out of the canyon.

Chee follows the tracks into...