Well find our gold in this chasm, and near the fall!" Rod's confidence was the chief thing that kept up the spirits of the treasure seekers during the next few days, for not the first sign of gold was discovered above the fall.

Yard by yard the prospectors worked up the chasm until they had washed its sands for more than a mile.

And with the passing of each day, as Wabigoon had predicted, the stream became more and more shallow, until they could wade across it without wetting themselves above their knees.

At the close of the fourth day the three lowered themselves over the face of the rock into the second chasm.

So convinced was Rod in his belief that the gold was hidden deep down under the creek bed that he dug a four-foot hole by torch-light and that night after supper washed out several pans of dirt in the glow of the camp-fire.