"What do you suppose that is?" inquired George lightly. "Is the tree trying to keep those rocks apart or are the rocks trying to keep the tree in between them?"
No one replied to the query of the Go Ahead Boy, for all were keenly aroused, now that they had found the third object which Simon Moultrie had indicated on his map.
So eager were all the members of the party that in spite of their recent exertions and the loads they were carrying they all began to run. In a brief time they arrived at the destination they were seeking and as they swung their packs from their shoulders Grant hastily drew again from his pocket the map which he had made in his attempt to recall the one which Simon Moultrie had drawn in the diary that the Go Ahead Boys had found.
CHAPTER XXIII
ON THE RIM
The little assembly crowded closely about Grant and looked with eager interest at the drawings he had made.
"What does it mean?" inquired Fred, "when it says you have to go a half-mile northeast?"
"I'm not sure that it says that," replied Grant. "There's simply a mark here, ½ m. N.E."
"Well, any lubber knows that that means a half-mile northeast."