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sh, an' the folks ez got in time made their pile!" "But you heard what he said of the spirit protecting the treasure," I remarked, "Don't you think he's right about the curse hanging over it? I believe it would be unlucky to touch it." "B'y, thaar's allars a cuss tied on to gold an' greenbacks, sich ez we used ter hev a little time back," said Hiram sententiously. "But, I reckon, the harm don't lie in the durned stuff itself: it's in the way some folks kinder handles it--thet's whaar the pizen is! Guess I ain't afeard o' no cuss, once I comes across thet cave the Dutch mate wer a-speakin' on!" "And the ghost?" "Oh, durn the sperrit, Cholly!" said he, with a laugh. "I ain't afeard." "Recollect though, Hiram," I remarked, in answer to this, "how frightened we all have been on board by Sam, and the way you were in only a couple of days ago, when you said you saw him again here." He looked serious again in a moment. "Guess I don't want ter run down thet air ghostess," said he apologetically. "Fur I reckon a man can't go agen a thin' he sees right afore his eyes." "And how about the other one that Mr Steenbock spoke of?" "Oh, thet's different, Cholly. A chap ye sees a-sottin' down an' a-playin' a banjo aint like a coon thet's ben buried two or three hundred year, an' thet no one hez seed, ez I knows on, fur Jan Steenbock never sed ez how he seed it hisself. No, b'y, I guess I'll hev a hunt fur thet thaar tree-sor ez he spoke on, ez soon ez ever I hev the chance." "Suppose we go this evening, when we strike off work?" said I--"that is, Hiram, if you don't mind my coming with you?" "Nary a bit, Cholly," he replied good-heartedly to this tentative question of mine; "glad to hev ye along o' me, seeing as how we both hev ben a-prospectin' the line o' country already." "All right," I exclaimed joyfully. "We'll have a good hunt for the cave. I wouldn't be surprised if we find it near the place where I saw the doves, by the pool between the hills over there." "Most like, b'y," said he, bustling about the galley and going on with his culinary work; "but hyar comes the stooard. Don't ye tell him nuthin' o' what we hev ben talkin' on, or I guess the coon 'll be wantin' to jine company, an' I don't wants him, I doesn't. He's a won'erful slimy sort o' cuss, an' since he's ben skeart by Sam Jedfoot's ghostess he hez ben a durned sight too mealy-mouthed fur me!" "I won't speak a word to him," said
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