he image and listened intently.

"There!" he said. "You can hear a click like the dropping of a
tumbler when I press here at the back."

"If the combination works, then," shouted Tommy, "it must be that
we have the Little Brass God holding the will."

"It works all right enough," Will replied.

With the final pressure on an elbow Will turned a foot to the right
and the Little Brass God opened exactly in the center.

But no will was found in the cavity. Instead a mass of diamonds,
emeralds, pearls, rubies, amethysts glittered out upon the floor.

The boys stood looking at the shining mass with wide open eyes.

"There must be a million dollars there!" Tommy said almost in a
whisper.

"I wasn't thinking of that!" Will said. "I was thinking that,
after all our labor and pains, we have unearthed the wrong Brass
God."

"But we've just got to find the right Brass God," Sandy insisted.

"Yes, and we'll have a sweet old time doing it!" exclaimed George.
"The poor fellow who lies dead there searched every bit of space
inside the cabin, yet he didn't find it!"

"But it may not be anywhere near the cabin!" exclaimed "Will.

"If we knew whether Antoine ever had it in his possession," Tommy
said, "we'd know better where to look."

"Of course he had it in his possession!" said Sandy. "I'm sure
he's the man who took it from the pawnbroker's shop on State
street. Now let's see," the boy went on, "what were the last words
he spoke?"

"He started in to say Brass!" replied Will.

"Then you see, don't you, that that proves that he knew all about
it?"

"Yes, and he asked if they found what they were looking for," Tommy
contributed, "and that shows that the Little Brass God he brought
from Chicago is some where about this palatial abode."

CHAPTER XXII

THE TWIN BRASS GODS

Oje, who had been sitting by the fire, waiting for his supper, long
delayed by the rush of events, now arose and took the Little Brass
God into his dusky hands.

"Have you ever seen one like that before?" asked Will.

The Indian shrugged his shoulders and pointed to the body of
Antoine.

"Dead man have one!" he said.

"Like this?" asked Will.

The Indian grunted an assent.

"Then I'll tell you what took place, boys," Will said. "When
Antoine shot Pierre, he came here and took possession of the cabin
and provisioned it, He had had the Little Brass God in the cavern
where George and Thede saw it, and he thought a safer place for