“No, senor, we did not. The dry fork with the platinum I do not find, as you know.”
“And you are positive that it was along a dry fork of that particular stream?”
“Positive! Why I did not find it—if I make the mistake—I cannot answer. Other planes came and we give up the search.”
“Did you take any of it away with you when you left the first time?” Gordon put in this question.
“Yes. At Panama I sold what I had. It was pure—excellent quality.”
At that the men exchanged significant glances and then Jim was able to pick out Joe, Brick and Carp who had arrived at the dry fork with Cardow. He thought that some of the other men looked like those who had been in the gang that had tied the Flying Buddies and the two De Castros when the “volcano” had intervened to save them.
“Do you know anything more about the place?” Cardow turned to Arto.
“No.”
“Did you ever go there?”
“No, I did not.”