Then they turned back, making the return just to the westward of the trail made by Doctor Joe, who was on the left flank as they passed up the brook.
"There's a rock! There's a big rock!" shouted David, as the rock where Jamie had begun his search for the cache loomed high through the snow.
Every one ran to the rock, and as they gathered by its side, Andy exclaimed: "I knows now what Jamie does! He were near enough to see the rock! He were the last one beyond Seth, and he finds un and he goes huntin' the cache by himself, and it gets dark and he gets lost when the snow comes!" "That sounds reasonable," admitted Doctor Joe.

"I shouldn't be the least surprised if you were right! It's more than probable that's just what happened! The thing now is to find the direction Jamie probably took from here, and the snow has covered all trace of him." "With his trail all covered, there'll be no trackin' he.

What'll we do about un ?" asked David.

"'Tis hard to think out what way Jamie'd be like to go from here." "Let's try goin' the way the paper said the cache was," suggested Andy.

"Maybe Jamie finds un in the tree and climbs the tree and falls and hurts himself." "Andy is right," agreed Doctor Joe.