"I believe we know it now," declared Rod. "In the first place, we
found it clutched by one of the skeletons, and we know from the knife
wounds in those skeletons, and the weapons near them, that the two
men fought and killed themselves. They fought for this map, for the
precious secret which each wished to possess alone. Now--"

He took the map from Wabi's fingers and held it up between them and
the fire.

"Isn't the rest of it clear?"

For a few moments the three looked at it in silence.

From the faded outlines of the original it had been drawn with
painstaking accuracy.

With a splinter Rod pointed to the top of the map, where were written
the words, "Cabin and head of chasm."

"Could anything be clearer?" he repeated. "Here is the cabin in which
the men killed themselves, and where we found their skeletons, and
here they have marked the chasm in which I shot the silver fox, and
down which we must go to find the gold. According to this we must go
until we come to the third waterfall, and there we will find another
cabin--and the gold."

"It all seems very simple--by the map," agreed Wabi.

Under the crude diagram were a number of lines in writing. They were: