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"If you feel disposed to risk a doubloon I am but a poor hunter, and cannot place more I shall attempt what a muchachito of ten years would consider a feat perhaps." "And what may that be, Senor Cibolero?" asked the officer, sneeringly. "I will check my horse at full gallop on the brow of yonder cliff!" "Within two lengths from the brow?"
He did not know many of the pieces; and McMurtagh, as they were held up to him, broke the silence only to answer arithmetically, "Doubloon, value eight dollars two shillings, New England;" or, "Pistole, value the half, free of agio." When they were all counted, McMurtagh opened a new page in the ledger, and a new account for the house: "June 24, 1829.
I can stand the rest, for they have plain wits; but he's too crazy-witty for my sanity. So, so, I leave him muttering." "Here's the ship's navel, this doubloon here, and they are all one fire to unscrew it. But, unscrew your navel, and what's the consequence? Then again, if it stays here, that is ugly, too, for when aught's nailed to the mast it's a sign that things grow desperate.
Treasure! REAL treasure! How perfectly exciting! Tell me how you found it, quick! Johnnie, you remember he raved about a doubloon " "He is raving now," O'Reilly declared, with a sharp stare at his friend. The girl turned loyally to her patient. "I'll believe you, Mr. Varona. I always believe everything about buried treasure. The bigger the treasure the more implicitly I believe in it.
The inspector he come aboard, and he went below and looked round, and he measured her between decks; but he never offered to set down any figgers, and when we came back into the cabin, says he, 'Yes yes good ship! you put one bloon front of this eye, so! says he, 'an' I not see with him; and you put one more doubloon front of other eye, and how you think I see at all what figger you write? So I took his book and I set down her measurements and made her out twenty ton short, and he took his doubloons and shoved 'em into his pocket.
For if the cotters by the lakeside were not men enough, the nights being at present moonlit, was there not Roaring Andy's band in the hills, not seven miles away, who would cut any man's throat for a silver doubloon, and a Protestant's for the "trate it would be, and sorra a bit of pay at all, the good men!"
At all events, it was the thought of that doubloon that swayed the balance of my hesitation in taking the moon-path in the track of that bright apparition. The pursuit of my hidden treasure had long been so fixed an idea in my mind that a scruple would have had to be strong indeed to withstand my impulse to follow up so exciting a clue.
Well, this has to do with treasure. That doubloon was a part of the lost treasure of the Varonas." "Lost treasure!" Norine's gray eyes widened. "What are you talking about?" "There is a mysterious fortune in our family. My father buried it. He was very rich, you know, and he was afraid of the Spaniards. O'Reilly knows the story." Johnnie assented with a grunt. "Sure! I know all about it."
"I have not found anyone worthy to be preferred before you," I replied, "and if you would like to go to the ball again I should be most happy to take you." The father and mother were delighted with the pleasure I was about to give to their beloved daughter. As the ball was to take place the same evening, I gave the mother a doubloon to get a mask and domino.
"He must have robbed some millionaire." "Incapable. Killed maybe but robbed! What do you take him for?" "Do you know where the money comes from?" "Do you know the different coinages?" "Yes." "Where does this come from, then?" "Ah! a Spanish doubloon."
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