We may just as well search him all over; it may be he has got a plan of the place somewhere about him, and it is like enough those fellows have killed him on the chance of finding it.' "So we searched him pretty thorough, and at last we found a paper sewn up in the collar of his jacket.

Sure enough it was a plan.

We did not examine it then, for someone might have come along, and we might have been accused of the chap's murder; so I shoved it into the inside pocket of my shirt, and we went on.

We looked at it that night; there was several marks on it and names, one of which we had heard of, though we had never been so far in the Indian country.

Well, as you may guess, we had some big talks over it, and at last we reckoned we would have a try to find it.
"We had been lucky, and had struck it rich at the last place we had been at, and we agreed, instead of spending our money in a spree or at the monte tables, we would fit out an expedition and try it.