* * *

"Jackson," said Pete in the morning, "you and Frank stay here. I reckon
there'll be no use to take the wagon down to the old claim; but us three
are going down to take a look, now we've come this far. Frank says he's
feeling better, but he don't look very peart. You get him to sleep all
you can. If we should happen to want you, we'll light a big fire. So
long!"

"Don Hooaleece," said Benavides, very bright-eyed, when they had ridden a
little way from camp, "how is eet to be? Eef eet is war I am wis you to
ze beeg black box."

"Joe," said Pete, "I've dodged and crept and slid and crawled and
climbed. I've tried to go over, under, and around. Now I'm going
through."

They came to the copper hill before eight. They found no one; but there
were little stone monuments scattered on all the surrounding hills, and a
big monument on the highest point of the little hill they had called
their own.

"They've gone," said Stan. "Very wise of them. Well, let's go see the
worst."

They dismounted and walked to the hilltop. The big monument, built of
loose stones and freshly dug slabs of ore, flashed green and blue in the
sun. Stan found a folded paper between two flat stones.

"Here's their location notice," he said.

He started to unfold it; a word caught his eye and his jaw dropped. He
held the notice over, half opened, so that Pete and Joe could see the
last paragraph:

And the same shall be known as the Bobby Carr Mine.

WITNESSES
Jim Scarboro
William Dorsey
Eric Anderson
C. Mayer Zurich

LOCATORS
Peter Wallace Johnson
Stanley Mitchell

"Zere is a note," said Joe; "I see eet wizzinside."

Stanley unfolded the location notice. A note dropped out. Pete picked it
up and read it aloud:

Pete: We did not know about the boy, or we would have helped, of course.
Only for him you had us beat. So this squares that up.

Your location does not take in quite all the hill. So we located the
little end piece for ourselves. We think that is about right.

Yours truly
C. Mayer Zurich

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