Part 45 (1/2)
You thought the caves grand at first”
”So I did, e could go there and fish, and cook our tea, and eat it, and enjoy ourselves like Robinson Crusoe; but when it co the other cave and all that stuff there, it oing”
”Why?”
”I don't know I can't explain it, but it seeht to tell my father or yours I felt like you do at first, and it see to be very rich”
”So we have, and so we are,” said Mike ”I don't see why you should turn cowardly about it”
”I didn't know that it was cowardly to want to be honest,” said Vince quietly
”Only hark at hi in, and the wind roared over them ”You are the most obstinate chap that ever was
Why won't you see things in the right light? Don't those things belong to my father?”
”I don't know”
”Yes, you do If they were brought and hidden there a hundred years ago, and everybody who brought 'em is dead, as they're on father's land,don't want thehts they'ree like with them, as ere the finders
Now then, don't be snobby; will you come first fine afternoon?”
Vince was silent
”I won't ask you to --only to keep it all quiet”
Vince picked up a stone and threw it fro billows below, but he made no reply
”I say, why don't you speak?” cried Mike
”Who's to talk here in this noise, with the wind blowing your words away?”
”You could just as easily have said you would coht, then, I'll coave him a hearty slap on the back ”But look here, Mikey,” he continued, ”don't you ever think about it?”
”About what?”
”The caves, and all that”
”Of course I do: I hardly think of anything else”
”Yes; but Iabout after us”
”Thought it rather queer once or twice, but of course it was only because ere so suspicious If we hadn't had the cave and been afraid of any one knowing our secret, we ht they atching us”