"He'll have to threaten me good and hard before I'll tell him where it is," said Jerry.
"Perhaps he may find it himself," suggested Fred.
"I don't think so," observed Mr. Baxter. "We hid it very carefully, and it will take some digging, even if he thinks to try that method, before he'll come upon it. By that time Holfax and his men may arrive."
That it was not Callack's plan to starve his captives was shown a little later, when a couple of Indians came in with some hot tea and some meat. There was also some cold tallow, an article of diet much esteemed by the Alaskans in the winter, and the treasure finders had learned to eat it. For fats are very heating, and some such food as that is much needed in the Arctic region.
"He's up to some move," said Fred, as, looking from the tent-flap, he saw a lot of the Indians beginning to break camp.
"Maybe they're going to leave us here and go back to the cave where we found the gold, thinking that we left it hidden there," suggested Jerry.
"No, they know we brought the gold away," said his father. "Their spy was there for that purpose."
"They certainly are moving the camp," went on Fred.
Moving it they were, but for no great distance. The tents and supplies, including those of the prisoners, their sleds and dogs, were taken toward the place where the ice fort had been built around the base of the great hummock.
"He's going back to our old camp!" exclaimed Fred.