In order to move it, they had to construct a drag of a treelimb
and hook a rope to this, and then it was all they could do to move it
along through the deep snow.
When they got the box into camp they lost no time in examining the
treasure. The gold and silver amounted to twenty-five hundred dollars,
and there were diamonds and other precious stones worth nearly as much
more.
"About five thousand dollars, all told," announced Dick. "That is not
such a bad haul, after all."
As there was now nothing more to look for, our friends spent ten days in
the camp, taking it easy most of the time, and spending a day in getting
back the missing sled. They went hunting twice, and the second time out
Dick got a fine shot at a deer, and brought down the creature without
trouble. Tom and Sam brought down considerable small game, and all voted
the outing a complete success, despite the interference occasioned by
their enemies.
At the end of the ten days Jasper Grinder was able to walk around,
although still weak. In the meantime John Barrow had constructed a sled
for the former school-teacher to sit upon, and on this he rode when they
started on the return to Timber Run.
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