Only one man got back to the coast to tell the tale.

And now you have all I or any other man knows of the inside of Guadalcanar." "But gold--have you heard of gold ?" Tudor asked impatiently.

"Do you know anything about gold ?" Sheldon smiled, while the two visitors hung eagerly upon his words.
"You can go two miles up the Balesuna and wash colours from the gravel.
I've done it often.

There is gold undoubtedly back in the mountains." Tudor and Von Blix looked triumphantly at each other.
"Old Wheatsheaf's yarn was true, then," Tudor said, and Von Blix nodded.
"And if Malaita turns out as well--" Tudor broke off and looked at Joan.
"It was the tale of this old beachcomber that brought us here," he explained.

"Von Blix befriended him and was told the secret." He turned and addressed Sheldon.