If he had gained possession of the idol his face did not betray him.

But once during the meal she looked up unexpectedly, to see him looking at her with amused, speculative eyes.

Then she knew he was gloating over her.
With an appearance of grave concern, and not a little well-simulated excitement, she approached him during the morning where he was working at the corral fence.

She was determined to discover the truth.
"I have some bad news for you," she said.
"Shucks," he returned, with a grin that almost disarmed her; "you don't say!" "Yes," she continued.

"When your father left his other papers with me he also left a diagram of a place in the timber clump where the idol is hidden.