Part 16 (2/2)

What was their surprise to find the case full of gold pieces! They had little doubt that the other also contained old before

”What shall we do with it?” cried Jack ”There's enough here to let oing to sell fish at the s to somebody,” said Bill

”That somebody will never coone to the bottoo, or he would have cooods have been here for es; and depend on it the owners would not have let them stay where they are, if they could have coold pieces won't help us to buy food while we are shut up in the cavern A few Dutch cheeses, with a cask of biscuits, would have been of ht,” said Jack ”Still, I vote that we fill our pockets, so that if we have to hurry away, and have no tiold with us”

Bill could not old was not theirs, of that he felt sure, and Jack could not persuade him to overco, under any circumstances, as not lawfully his own If the owners were dead, it belonged to their heirs

Jack did not see this so clearly Thefound it, they had a right to it

Theythe point Jack put a handful or two of the ers out of the box; he did not want the ht to it

There were several other articles they had not exa that his torch was aled to let it drop Before he lighted another, however, Bill's torch affording sufficient light for the purpose, he ed to knock in the head of one of the srains He tasted theitated tone, ”This is gunpowder!”

Had Jack held his torch a few seconds longer in his hand, he and Bill would have been blown to atoreat astonish population, ould, however, never have discovered the cause of the explosion, although Jeannette Turgot uessed at it

”It's a oing to take my torch to look at these casks”

He hunted about for all of the same description, and rolled them into a place by themselves

”We ain with torches,” he said

Bill agreed with him

After all, of what use to them was the treasure they had discovered

The cloth and linen wereof them

”I don't see e should not try to make jackets and trousers for ourselves,” observed Bill ”This cloth will be fine stuff for the purpose, and as the cold weather is co”

”But how are we going to make them?” asked Jack

”The linen will serve us for thread, and I et anything better,” answered Bill

”However, we'll think about that by-and-by; it's time to return to our caly loaded themselves with asoff pieces with their knives They could return, they agreed, for h

Bill was not quite consistent in taking the cloth when he would not touch the money, but it did not occur to hi it, or he would have refused to do so Had he argued the point, he would have found it very difficult to settle One thing was certain, that the owners were never likely to ot back to their fire without ether, and put on fresh wood, they ht, said their prayers in a thankful spirit, and slept far more comfortably than they had done since they had taken possession of the cavern