Godfrey had no intention of renewing his efforts to find the barrel--he could not have been hired to go into that potato-patch after what had happened there--but it was well enough, he thought, to hold it up to Dan as an inducement.

Besides, if he could get the boy interested in the matter again, and induce him to prosecute the search, and Dan should, by any accident, stumble upon the barrel, so much the better for himself.
The great desire of his life would be attained.

He would be rich, and that, too, without work.
"Why can't you steal the canoe yourself ?" asked Dan.
"Kase I've got to pack up an' get ready to leave here; that's why.
It'll take me from now till the time you come back to get all my traps together." Dan hurriedly made a mental inventory of the valuables his father possessed and which he had seen in the camp, and the result showed one rifle, one powder-horn and one bullet-pouch.

All Godfrey had besides he carried on his back.

It certainly would not take him three or four hours to gather these few articles together.
"Pap's mighty 'feared that he'll do something he can make somebody else do fur him," thought the boy.