Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 91: The Lost Cache — page 13: what you’re looking at

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THE MATTER SETTLED. 15 « that this document is genuine, that there is a buried treasure, and that we can find it, if we go to work in the right sway, and use proper perseverance. Besides, Myers, if gold has been found’ in that region, why may we not find more? If we do not succeed in discovering this treasure, weymay make dis- coveries that will be still more valuable.” “That is possible. What do you propose to do about it ?” “T propose to go there, to set out as soon as possible, and you must accompany me. It is yet early in the season, and we shall find plenty of water. We can take a train of pack- mules, a few good men, and plenty of ammunition, so that we_ may be able to take care of ourselves.” “JT would like nothing better than such an excursion—al- thouglf I can not help thinking that it is a wild-goose chase— if you will defray the expenses. Will your father allow it, and will he let me off for a season ?” “Never miind the expenses; I will attend to that; and I will engage to make it all right with Colonel Chenault. ‘gi: “Very well, then; we may consider it settled. Suppose we get some paste and muslin, Harry, and mount this‘map, so that it will hold together until we are done with ‘it.” CHAPTER II. A OLAIMANT FOR THE CACHR, AxovuT a month after the interview related in the last chap- ter, a long train left a frontier post in Oregon, journeying to- ward the east.. The route it was to travel lay across the Cas- cade Mountains, around the northern end of the Blue Moun- tains, and thence wound in a south-easterly direction, crossing the Rocky Mountains at the South Pass. The train was partly composed of traders, trappers and hunters, partly of return- ing emigrants, partly of adventurers, surveyors and explorers, and was generally a curious collection of varios human shades and characters. The train was so large that it was in no dan- ger of being attacked by hostile Indians, and a number of the » " comitiooke.com