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looked at their contents, uttering exclamations of delighted amazement
as she gazed. Then he withdrew the buckskin bag from the jewel-chest,
and placed it in her hands.

"Lift that," he said simply.

"Oh, dear, how heavy!" exclaimed the girl. "I should not like to be
obliged to carry this very far. What does it contain?"

Dick plunged his hand into his pocket and pulled out the handful of gems
that he had abstracted from the bag.

"It is full of pretty little stones like these," he answered, displaying
them to her astonished gaze. "Put your hand into the lucky-bag, dear,
and see what you can find there."

She did so, and pulled out a similar handful to those which glittered in
Dick's palm.

"Why, this is a perfect cave of Aladdin, Dick," she exclaimed, in
delighted astonishment. "Where did it all come from, do you think?"

"It is impossible to say with certainty," answered Leslie; "but I have
very little doubt that it was brought to this hiding-place from that old
wreck that you discovered sunk in the lagoon. At all events it has lain
here for many years--a hundred, at least, I should think; and its
original owners have long been dead and gone, leaving no trace of their
identity behind them. It is therefore now _ours_, sweetheart--our very
own; so the fact of our being cast away upon this desert island has not
been an unmitigated misfortune, after all, you see."

"No, indeed," agreed Flora, heartily. "There was a time when I
certainly so regarded it; but I do so no longer, for it has given me
you, and it has made you a rich man. Why, Dick, you must be a veritable
millionaire!"

"Yes," agreed Dick; "there cannot be much doubt about that. At least,
we are _jointly_ worth quite a million, which practically means the same
thing. And now, do you wish to adorn your pretty self with any of these
gewgaws? Because, if so, you had better make your selection, and then
we ought to be going, for I see that the sun is getting low."

"Yes, let us get away from here; it is a horrid place, notwithstanding
the fact that it is a treasure-cave. And, as to wearing any of those
things, I would very much rather not, Dick, please. They suggest to me
all sorts of dreadful ideas--scenes of violence and bloodshed, the
sacking and burning of towns, the murder of their inhabitants, and--oh
no, I could not wear any of them, thank you."

"Very well," said Dick; "then I will just make everything safe here, and
we will be