"Who burned it?"
"Well, it was my fault. You see the page was loose; I let the book drop, and the draft from the chimney sucked the leaf into the fire."
"What else was written on that leaf?"
"The word light was put down in three different places."
"Did the man show us the night we were there three places where the light entered?"
"No, only two; but of course we didn't see everything."
"I do believe it was a drawing of the cave," said Martin. "But the next question is, who drew it. If we only knew that, we could find out the names of the fellows in the place."
"Nearly every person in the State has read that book," replied Owen. "I don't see what good it would do to get the names."
The boys were silent for some time.
The drawing which Owen had seen was the work of Jerry. When the trapper discovered the cave he went to the Tinker's house and offered to show it to him under certain conditions. Some of these conditions were written on the back of the page which had been burned. If Owen could have examined that page for five minutes he would have known the secret of the cave; for, while the few words scribbled there were unintelligible to others, they were sufficiently plain to any one who had visited the spot.