CHAPTER XXV.
THE TABLET OF STONE.
By consulting a watch they found that it was after six o'clock; but they had brought supper along and ate this in preference to making their way out of the cave to their camp on the mountainside.
"Farvel must not be allowed to get ahead of us in this search," declared Robert Menden. "If he once got the treasure in his possession, the jig would be up, so far as we are concerned."
"It's queer we haven't seen anything of him to-day," said Dick. "He must be in the cave somewhere."
"There are so many branches we can easily keep apart," said Don. "It is like the branches of a great tree lying flat underground."
"And we are like ants looking for the right branch," laughed Bob.
"I feel it in my bones that we have the right branch here," put in Robert Menden.
"An' I feel thet way myself," added old Jacob. "I think we'll have thet treasure in forty-eight hours, or sooner."
