Isn't that story clear enough ?" "Yes, as far as you have gone," replied Wabi.

"These three men discovered gold, quarreled, signed this agreement, and then Ball was murdered.

The two Frenchmen, as Mukoki suggested at the cabin, came out a little later for supplies, and brought the buckskin bag full of gold with them.

They had come as far as the cabin at the head of the chasm when they quarreled over possession of the map and agreement, fought, and died.

From the old guns and other evidences we found near them we know that all this happened at least fifty years ago, and perhaps more.