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Ss 30 THE LOST CACHE. were so earnest fn the undertaking, and who have been s0 sanguine until to-day, should be so easily discouraged at the first failure. For my part, I confess that [ am disappointed, but I am not inclined to give up the search. We haye come too far t6 be turned back by a litte hindrance.” “ A little hindrance! Do you know what you are saying, © Sam Myers? If a man is knocked down, he may as well confess the fall, for no amount of argument can convince him that he has not been hit. If he starts to go toa certain point, and finds his way blocked up, at the outset, by an impassable barrier, it is useless to try to argue it away, and he had bet- ter turn back.” “Tt is possible, Harry, that we are neither knocked down nor stopped by an insurmountable barrier. If we hunt for a needle in a haystack, we must not expect to prick our fingers with it when we turn over the first handful of hay.” “ But we find the haystack locked up, and can not even find the way to get to it. If this is not the real place of beginning, we are all wrong, and where in the wide West shall we look for it ?” “Tf this is not the point that j is indicated on-the map by a star, I confess that I can not even imagine where it is. It is my belief that we are at or near the proper starting-point, that causes me to think that we have not yet asian our re- sources.” “What resources are left to us? We have tried every thing.” “ We have tried forty chains, ory rods, and one measures, - but have not yet tried forty miles.” “Forty miles! I half believe, Myers, that you are taking leave of your senses. Forty miles due west to find a little spring! That Wount be hunting for a needle in a eh with a vengeance.” “ You must remember that we started for the purpose of finding a needle in a haystack.” ~ “Do you suppose, Sam Myers, that iy man, if he had a valuable cache in these wilds, and wished to preserve the clue to it, would fix his starting-point at a place forty miles from anywhere near it ?” ; “Why not? §8t. Louis was our starting-point. There must, conmiclbooks.com