CHAPTER XV.
IN THE DEVIL'S CAVE.
"Remain here, Ulrich, until I return," said Barnwell, alighting.
"Yes, sir."
Armed for almost any encounter, young Barnwell started to find the cave in front of which he had had such a sanguinary struggle a week before.
He had no difficulty in finding it; but he was on his guard this time.
There lay the carcasses of the wolves he had slain, and the very fact of their not having been devoured was positive evidence that there were no other wolves in the neighborhood.
Glancing around, and listening for a moment, he became convinced that the cave was now tenantless, and so he passed on beyond the first point that he had before discovered, and began looking for the next.
Holding the diagram in one hand, and a revolver in the other, he was not long in finding it, and thus two points were gained that corresponded with it.
Again he consulted and compared.
Ten feet marked on the diagram, and then there was an index finger pointing east.