Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 91: The Lost Cache — page 9: what you’re looking at

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PUZZLED. 11 @ deep one, and I am afraid that my rope is not long enough to reach to the bottom of it.” “Are you frightened already, or fretted? When there is such a great prize to be gained, you ought to have more patience. You will never become a millionaire if you go to work in this way.” “T wish you would stop laughing, and come and help me to draw some sense out of this thing, for my brains are fairly muddled.” | “J will take a look at your wonderful paper, if only ont of curiosity,” answered Myers, as he drew his chair up to the table, and examined the document. “It certainly does seem rather -abstruse,” he said, after a careful inspection, “and we must go to work systematically, if we are to discover the meaning of it—supposing always that it has a meaning. You say that you received it from an old trapper.” “Yes; from Jacques Renaud, who has been in my father’s employ for many years.” | “Ts he an honest and reliable man? Can you believe im- plicitly what he says? Is he very superstitious ?” “He is somewhat superstitious, I admit, like all of his aid | but his honesty can not be questioned.” “What story does your superstitious but honest man tell about this mysterious paper ?” “ He says that he obtained it from a Crow Indian, whom he found starving and dying in the mountains. The Indian was , grateful to the old man, although his life could not be saved; and gave him this paper before he died, telling him that a white man, who had been a prisoner with their tribe for sev- eral years, had found a large amount of treasure, which he had buried in a cache. somewhere. The Crow said that the white man, with his assistance, had escaped, but they had got separated, during a violent snow-storm, in the mountains, and he supposed that the white man had perished; that he had picked up this paper, while making for himself a bed in the snow, and knew it to be the same that the white man had shown a as containing directions for saree the concealed - treasure.” “Tf there is any truth at all in the story, it is more probable - connicloooks.com A.