gh Holfax, as an
interpreter, told the other three Indians he would no longer need their
services. They seemed to take it as a matter of course, and their eyes
shone greedily as they saw the bag of gold coins, from which Mr. Baxter
took their pay. Only gold was used as money for the Indians.

"I hope they will have no trouble finding their tribe," said the leader
of the expedition to Holfax.

"They know way," was the response. "They be in dis country many year."

"Well, give them plenty to eat, some tea, meat, and some matches to
build a fire," added Mr. Baxter, for each Indian carried with him a
simple camping outfit, consisting, for the most part, of a pot in which
to make tea, and a frying pan to warm meat in over an open fire.

"Well, good-by," said Mr. Baxter, to the three who were leaving, though
they did not understand very much English.

"Goo'-by," responded Zank, with a leer that struck Fred as being rather
ugly. "Me see you 'gin, maybe."

"I don't believe so," said Mr. Baxter with a smile, but Fred thought of
the whispered words between the man with the glass eye and the Indian. A
vague feeling of uneasiness possessed the boy.

CHAPTER XIV

THE LOST MAP

Slinging over their backs the packages of food which had been given
them, the three Indians started away along the ridge of the first low
range of mountains, to join their tribe. The gold-seekers thought they
had seen the last of them, but they did not know what the future had in
store for them, nor under what circumstances they were again to see the
treacherous Alaskans.

"Now we've got to rely a good bit on ourselves," said Mr. Baxter, when
Zank and his two companions were out of sight. "Each one of us will have
to do more work, but I think we will be better off. We are getting near
to where Stults is supposed to have hidden the gold, and the fewer
natives who know about it the better it will be."

He had spoken before Holfax, and Fred's face must have shown the wonder
he felt, for Jerry's father remarked:

"Oh, Holfax knows what we are after. In fact we shall have to depend on
him, in a measure, for he knows this country and the locality where we
are going better than I do. I have told him about the map and about the
treasure."

"Me help to find it," replied the Indian with a grin. "But not good too
many know. Some Indians bad. Me try be good."

"Yes, you do try, and I think we can trust you," added Mr. Baxter. "Now
then, we must m