"Say, I reckon I know what you are after!" he burst out suddenly.
"What ?" came from the three.
"You're on a hunt for old Goupert's treasure." "Why, what do you know about that ?" demanded Dick.

He remembered that the writing on the map said, "Beware of Goupert's ghost." "Oh, that's an old yarn about here, and at different times we've had more'n a hundred folks a-hunting around for that old Frenchman's money box, but nobody ever got so much as a smell o' it." "Who was Goupert ?" asked Tom.
"Goupert was a thoroughly bad man, who lived sixty or seventy years ago.
The story goes that he used to be a smuggler and that he came here when the authorities chased him off the Great Lakes.

He had lots o' money, but he was a miser, and a queer stick to boot.

He built himself a cabin on Bear Pond, and lived there all alone for two years.

Then some lake men came down here, and one night there was a big row and the lake men disappeared.