One of the officers gave a sharp command and the column of men, each carrying a pack containing one hundred pounds of gold and gems on his back, started forward. Ted and Stanley followed. An hour later they were descending a green slope, their first glimpse of the outer world in many months. They were happy, for they were on the way home. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.