"I discovered it by accident," continued the voice of Brace when all was
again quiet; "it was hidden as only a squirrel or an Injin can hide when
they improve upon nature. When I was satisfied that the girl had been
in the woods, I was determined to find out where she vanished, and went
there again. Prospecting around, I picked up at the foot of one of the
biggest trees this yer old memorandum-book, with grasses and herbs stuck
in it. I remembered that I'd heard old Wynn say that Low, like the d--d
Digger that he was, collected these herbs; only he pretended it was for
science. I reckoned the book was his and that he mightn't be far away. I
lay low and waited. Bimeby I saw a lizard running down the root. When he
got sight of me he stopped."

"D--n the lizard! What's that got to do with where she is now?"

"Everything. That lizard had a piece of sugar in his mouth. Where did it
come from? I made him drop it, and calculated he'd go back for more. He
did. He scooted up that tree and slipped in under some hanging strips of
bark. I shoved 'em aside, and found an opening to the hollow where they
do their housekeeping."

"But you didn't see her there--and how do you know she is there now?"

"I determined to make it sure. When she left to-day, I started an hour
ahead of her, and hid myself at the edge of the woods. An hour after the
coach arrived at Indian Spring, she came there in a brown duster and was
joined by him. I'd have followed them, but the d--d hound has the ears
of a squirrel, and though I was five hundred yards from him he was on
his guard."

"Guard be blessed! Wasn't you armed? Why didn't you go for him?" said