Much discouraged, he was about to return again to the rock when suddenly his eye fell upon a small and scarcely noticeable hackmatack six paces to the right of his north line and a little beyond him.
"That must be he, now!" he exclaimed.

"'Tis the only hackmatack I sees hereabouts.

'Tis _sure_ he! I'll pace un back to the rock! If the tree's nuth'ard from the rock, the rock'll be south'ard from the tree.
I'll try pacin' that way." With his compass Jamie sighted from the tree to the rock, and to his satisfaction the rock, lying due south, fell within his line of sight, but at the extreme easterly end of its northerly face instead of at the centre, the point from which he had run his original line.
He now paced the distance, which proved to be a little farther than twenty of Jamie's longest strides, which he accounted for again by reasoning that a man could take longer steps than he could stretch with his short legs.
Then for the first time Jamie observed two stones, one on top of the other, at the foot of the rock and at the very place to which his compass had directed him.

He lifted the stones and an examination proved that they had not long since been placed in the position in which he found them.

Both had marks of earth upon them on the lower side, but the stone which was below rested upon the carpet of caribou moss which covered the ground and prevented it from coming in contact with the earth.