41 Lure O Gold 1904

The White Buoy Bobs Up
I nodded assent, though I was not much impressed
by the argument, as it seemed productive of nothing
that would bring my lost gold nearer to me.
Gus Clarke went on to say that the cabin where the
an old man who
buoy was found had been occupied by
owned one of the little ferry-boats that plied across the
narrow Snake river. But the man had disappeared,
leaving nothing in the cabin but an old rusty camp
stove and a pair of worn-out overalls. The buoy, with
the rope wound carelessly around it, had been found
in a corner.
Whether the ancient ferryman had any
thing to do with its presence there was not apparent.
I went with Gus Clarke to the ferryman s cabin, and we
poked about under the loose flooring and tore out some
of the lining in the effort to find something that might
give us a better clew. Our
warded.
patient search was not re
Inquiry among the miners of the Spit
as to
the occupant of the cabin gave us nothing further to
work upon. At the ferry they told us that the old man
had been gone a week and that nobody had been living
in the cabin in the meantime.
They had not seen any
one enter the place, though
it would have been an easy
matter for a person to come and go in the night without
observation.
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