and on by
ways the attorney did not know, until at last they arrived at a little
dell. The night was pitchy dark, and nothing could Ezekiel see but the
ghostly figure gliding along ahead of him, all lit by a weird
phosphorescent light. In the dell was a small granite cairn, and here the
ghost stopped and looked around for the attorney.

"Ezekiel Grosse," said he, when Ezekiel had come up and was standing on
the other side of the cairn. "Ezekiel Grosse, thou longest for gold.
So did I! I won the prize, but I found no pleasure in it. Beneath those
stones lies treasure enough to make thee richer than thou hast ever
dreamed of. Dig for it, it is yours. Obtain it and keep it all to
yourself, and be one of the rich men of the earth, and when thou art
happiest I will come and look upon you."

With that the spectre disappeared, and Ezekiel, overcome with fright and
amazement, was left alone by the cairn.

"Well," he said at last, recovering his courage, "I don't care if you are
ghost or devil, I will soon find out if you are telling me lies or not!"
A harsh laugh sounded through the darkness, as though in answer to his
brave words, and once again the attorney trembled with fear.

He did not begin his search that night, but taking careful note of the
exact spot, he returned to his house to think over all that had happened;
and what he decided was that he was not going to let any squeamishness
stand in the way of a fortune.

"I'll tip over that old cairn," he said, with a great show of coolness,
"and I'll search every foot of ground under it and around it, and it shall
not be my fault if the treasure is not found!"

So, a night or two later, armed with a crowbar and other tools, away he
started secretly, and found his way again to the lonely dell, where he
soon dispersed the stones of the cairn and began his digging. The ground
was hard and flinty, and the work anything but easy, but he had not far to
dig before he came across something, something hard and round, which
increased his excitement until it nearly suffocated him.

Feverishly he dug and dug, and cleared away the earth until at last he had
laid bare a large metallic urn sunk deep in the ground, an urn so large
and heavy that though he used his utmost strength, and his strength by
that time was almost that of a madman, he could not move it, much less
carry it home with him; and having brought no light he could not even
examine it. So all he could do that