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Updated: May 23, 2025
Barrow, I wish you wouldn't mention this to the other folks around here. They might laugh at us for coming on what they think is a wild-goose chase." "Oh, I won't say a word on it if you want it that way." "Did this Goupert leave any relatives?" asked Sam. "No, lad, not a soul." "Then if we should find that treasure it would belong to us," put in Tom. "Every penny on it, lad.
"Oh, that's an old yarn about here, and at different times we've had more'n a hundred folks a-hunting around for that old Frenchman's money box, but nobody ever got so much as a smell o' it." "Who was Goupert?" asked Tom. "Goupert was a thoroughly bad man, who lived sixty or seventy years ago.
There was but a little for the boys to do, and after the fishing was over they were glad enough to take it easy in the shelter and listen to several stories John Barrow had to tell. The guide also related what he knew concerning Goupert and the various hunts made for the missing treasure. "He must have been a fierce sort of a man in his day," observed Dick.
Goupert couldn't be found at first, but about a month later some hunters discovered his dead body tied to a tree in the woods, not far from the spot you asked about. He had been left to starve to death. The story was that the lake men had starved him in order to get him to tell where he had hidden his money box, and that old Goupert was too much o' a miser to let the secret out.
"It's not so desolate in the summer time, Dick. But I reckon Goupert was a mighty odd stick, as it was." At last they rounded a turn in the stream and came in sight of Bear Pond, a long and wide stretch of water located in the very midst of two tall mountains. The pond was covered with thick ice, and the snow lay upon it in long drifts and ridges. The ice was blackish and almost as hard as flint.
Dick's idea was followed out, and once more they went on, up a narrow stream which had many a turn among the cedar brakes and hemlocks which lined either side. Rocks were likewise numerous, and the lad came to the conclusion that locating the treasure was going to be no easy task. "It's rather desolate," he remarked. "I wonder what ever possessed that old Goupert to come here?"
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