For a short time after they were finished, he sat there to watch the craft displayed by Elaine's nimble fingers, as a slender bit of the fiber stuff began to accumulate in stitches. "You were made for a home-builder's mate," he said, and arose and left her to her thoughts, and to certain inflammable emotions. He carried his jug down the trail and to the spring, resuming the business in hand. The sight of the pool not only served to arouse his disgust anew, but he was likewise reminded of the documents, reposing still unread in his pocket. The bomb, he knew, should be carried back to camp, lest the fuse become dampened in the thicket. With this and his jug full of water, he hastened back to the foot of the trail--and forgot them both forthwith. The half sheet of paper, readable at last, had enslaved him then and there. He sat on a rock, with the paper on his knee, and was lost to all things else. For a moment he thought, perhaps, he had dreamed of obtaining the key to the hidden message. But one hurried glance at the words he had read convinced him the trick had been done. On the back of the sheet he began at once to jot down the signs of which he felt most certain. The results, as he made them, were these: [Illustration: THREE, HILL, HAUNTED, and their symbols] The next word, according to his deductions, should be "Island." This, he felt, was indisputably confirmed by the fact it contained precisely the required number of "letters," with the sign for L, A, and D, already discovered, occupying their proper positions. He, therefore, added: [Illustration: "ISLAND" and its symbols] to his growing collection of letters, and promptly produced the following results by the process of substitution: [Illustration: many words, and their symbols] There could be so little doubt, after that, concerning such words as "Under," "High," "Important," and "Water," which supplied the characters, U, G, M, P, W, and O, which was also suggested in "Or," before "Haunted," that a bit of additional substitution very promptly cleared the entire affair. Grenville jotted it down, to make sense, in the following fashion: "Under tree, Three-Hill, or Haunted Island, Cave. Get in (during) high water (in) Spring time when noise loud. Important. Make no mistake. Map on Buli shows same." The one word which he felt to be doubtful was "Buli," which, he confessed, might as readily be "Zuli," "Juli," or "Quli," but this was of no significance, one way or another. Its meaning was still obscure.