We had a big row with him and he was kicked out in
a hurry by Captain Putnam. They are our enemies."
"Humph! That promises to make it interesting for you. But it's queer
they should come up at the same time you're here," went on the lumberman
thoughtfully.
"I might as well let you into a secret, Mr. Barrow. Will you promise to
keep it entirely to yourself?"
"Certainly, lad, if it's an honest secret."
"It is honest," answered Dick, and thereupon told of the adventure on
Needle Point Island and of the map on the table, and how it had
disappeared, and of the finding of the second map in the brass-lined
money casket later on.
"I am sure Dan Baxter has that other map," he concluded. "He wants that
treasure as badly as we do."
"Then I allow as how it will be a nip-an'-tuck race between you,"
returned John Barrow. "The fust to get there will be the best man. O'
course, with that map it ought to be plain enough sailin'."
"I thought it would be, but it will mix us up, now you say that Bear
Pond empties into Perch River in several places.
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