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"I'll be careful after this but we are going to get the treasure, sure thing," he added, stoutly. "I was afraid an earthquake might have played pranks with that cave," was Captain Barforth's comment. "An earthquake can shake down the top of a cave quicker than it can shake down anything else. It doesn't take much to do it."
"He has the location pretty well fixed in his head unless the whole thing is a fairy tale," was Captain Barforth's comment. While one of these talks was going on, Dick, who was on deck, chanced to go below in a hurry. As he passed down the companionway he encountered Walt Wingate, who had been listening at the cabin doorway.
The deck hand was not handcuffed as he had been a short while before, when tramping the forward deck for air, by Captain Barforth's permission. "Carey must haf daken dem handguffs off," said the German youth. "I ton't like dot. Maype dot Vingate make troubles, hey?" The boys watched, and presently saw Bossermann come up and join the pair. Then Bossermann went below to the engine room.
"I believe the want of fresh water is what keeps the natives away," was Captain Barforth's comment, and it is probable that his surmise was correct. "I see a light!" cried Songbird, when they were on the point of retiring. "It is out on the water." He pointed, and soon all made out the lights of a vessel in the distance.
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