Dave had already lighted a fire, for in this sheltered valley there was little fear of the slight smoke it made being seen, broken up as it was in its passage through the leaves overhead.
"We have found the marks," Dick said, as they arrived.

"We don't think there can be any mistakes about them." "Have you?
That is good," and the three men at once went on to the two trees.
"There is no doubt that is what was meant," Boston Joe said.

"Wall, I am glad to see them--it shows, anyhow, that we are right in our guess-work as to the map, which we never felt quite sure of before, seeing them three peaks war the only thing we had to go on, and the marks might not have been meant for them arter all.

Now the matter air clear and fixed, and we have only got to go ahead." "Yes, we will stick to the line they have traveled as shown in the map, but if we miss it, it is no great odds; we know where we have got to go to, and we can find our way there, I guess, anyhow.

Still, their line may be the best.