"There's another party arrived at Timber Run on the hunt fer
that treasure of old Goupert's."
"Another party. Who is it?"
"Didn't hear their names. There are two men and a young fellow o'
nineteen or twenty. They have hired Bill Harney fer a guide, and are
goin' to strike out fer the Pond to-morrow."
"Two men and a young fellow," mused Dick. "I'd like to know who they
are."
"One o' the men looked like a preacher or schoolmaster. He called the
young feller Thacher, or something like that."
"It wasn't Baxter?" queried Dick, struck by a sudden idea.
"That's the name--now I remember."
"And the man, did they call him Grinder--Jasper Grinder?" went on Dick
excitedly.
"If it wasn't Grinder, it was something like it. The party came east
from Ithaca."
"It's Dan Baxter and Jasper Grinder sure!" burst out Dick. "Well, this
beats the nation."
"Then you know the crowd?"
"I do--to my sorrow, Mr. Barrow. That Dan Baxter is the good-for-nothing
young fellow I told you of this morning, and Jasper Grinder was a
teacher at the Hall.
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