Goupert couldn't be found at first, but about a month later some hunters discovered his dead body tied to a tree in the woods, not far from the spot you asked about.

He had been left to starve to death.
The story was that the lake men had starved him in order to get him to tell where he had hidden his money box, and that old Goupert was too much o' a miser to let the secret out.

So folks begun to hunt for that money box high an' low, but never got a smell o' it, as I said." "Did you ever hunt for the money ?" questioned Dick.
"No, I never had no time to waste.

So you really came up on that account ?" "We came up on that account, and also to have a good time in the mountains," said Dick, before Sam or Tom could speak.

"But, Mr.Barrow, I wish you wouldn't mention this to the other folks around here.