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Updated: June 23, 2025
Kie Wicks might try to get back at them, if he found out about the treasure. So the camp on the summit was broken up. As the professor urged the burro through the canyon, loaded down with his tent and supplies, the contrary animal made a rush toward the flat where the Indians were camped, and nothing could turn him from his purpose. The professor had a sudden inspiration.
Joy would be sure to get nervous and Kit might get into an argument with Kie or Maude and Enid Breckenridge would certainly tell her father and he would insist on them having an escort, or not allowing them to go into the canyon again.
Kie beamed with satisfaction. "Here, lend a hand, Ramon, and help me pry open this chest. I know a man who says he'll give me a fancy price for this treasure. This is my lucky day." The cover of the trunk was thrown back and the men stared down into the greatest array of old clothes and camping equipment they had ever seen. "Ain't this wonderful!" said Ramon picking up a huge chunk of copper ore.
"Poor boy, no kie, Mara's boy," she said; "Mara love boy;" and then giving an angry glance at Aunt Ruey, who sat much disheartened and confused, she struck out her little pearly hand, and cried, "Go way, go way, naughty!"
He stared moodily. Finally he rose and went outside, grumbling like a spoiled child. He sat for a long time, his head in his hands, not looking up to greet his customers. "What's the matter with the old man?" inquired a neighbor. "'T ain't often you see Kie Wicks sick or under the weather." "Somebody's stolen some property from him, and he's thinkin' out a way to get even.
He watched by the hour, he questioned every man, woman and child he met, but the professor and his men were not talking. The location work on the Orphan Annie claim and the digging of a tunnel seemed to be their only interest. Kie noticed that a monument had been built to cover the claim where the tunnel was being driven and smiled to himself.
And when Kie Wicks, deciding that he would have a look at the tunnel which he had left in charge of the two ruffians, climbed the trail to the summit the next morning about dawn, the first person he saw was the old professor, smoking his pipe and gazing far off over the hills with a smile of happiness on his face. Kie wheeled his horse as if he had been shot at and raced madly away.
He's safe, they said, but I'm not so sure about that." "I wouldn't worry about him. Kie Wicks has no reason to harm the professor," declared Judge Breckenridge. "Now I'll tell you what we'd better do. You and the girls go along down the trail and visit the Indian camp. That is evidently what Kie wants you to do.
I think he put Ramon up to selling it to me. But I don't know why." "I wonder why Kie didn't take back the map when you offered it to him? That surprised me. Usually he doesn't turn down any kind of a gift." "He didn't need this map," said Tommy quietly. "How do you know?" "Because the map had been copied before I got it. The tracing marks were on it for a full day, then disappeared.
"We will want to carry on the work as quietly as possible, but if Kie hears about a treasure, we'll not have a minute's peace," said the Judge, rising and surveying the ground. "The first thing we ought to do," he continued, "is to stake out a claim covering this wall. Then we'll own it." "Yes, and have Kie Jump that claim, if he is watching us." Bet shrugged her boyish shoulders.
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