"If the map is worth anything I want to know it." Without further ado Randolph Rover began to read the writing.

It was a hard and tedious task, and the translating was, to him, equally difficult, for his knowledge of French was somewhat limited.

Translated, the writing ran somewhat after this fashion: "To find the box of silver and gold, go to where Bear Pond empties into Perch River.

Ten paces to the west is a large pine tree, which was once struck by lightning.

Go due southwest from the pine tree sixty-two paces, to the flat rock, behind which is a sharp-pointed rock.