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'Five thousand dollars better, my friend from the rural districts what do you say NOW? 'I CALL you! said Backus, heaving his golden shot-bag on the pile. 'What have you got? 'Four kings, you d d fool! and Wiley threw down his cards and surrounded the stakes with his arms. 'Four ACES, you ass! thundered Backus, covering his man with a cocked revolver.
"Sure," answered Billy, "that would amount to how many have you of your own?" "Four," answered Dic. "Then you'll want to buy sixteen four hundred dollars. Here is the money," and he handed him a canvas shot-bag containing the gold. "Now, Billy Little," said Dic, "I want to give you my note for this money, bearing the highest rate of interest."
I fetched it out of its corner, and cleaned and oiled it. I now loaded it, for powder-horn and shot-bag hung near it on the wall, putting in a handful of the biggest sort of shot, swan-shot as I should call them. During this task, Mistress Waynflete watched me narrowly, but made no reference to it.
"Oui, monsieur," came, in polite deferential tones, from the culinary department, and the little half-breed maiden appeared at the door. "Did you mend that shot-bag last night?" "Oui, monsieur." "Fetch it here, then, please; and, Jessie, stir your stumps like a good girl, and get some food ready to take with us."
I rose quietly, switched off the drum, replaced it in the hanging cupboard, and, taking from the same receptacle the concussor and a small leather bag filled with shot and attached to a long coil of fishing-line, softly descended the stairs. On the mid-way landing I laid down the shot-bag and paid out the coil of line as I descended the next flight.
"As soon as we had landed on the beach, Wallbridge told me he had twelve hundred dollars in gold, which he had earned by his two years' work in Cuba. By the light of the flashes of lightning I saw the bag in his hand. It was an old shot-bag, tied up with a piece of white tape.
He drew it forth from the hole, and held it up where the light of the lantern struck upon it. It was the hidden treasure. The bag was just what Harvey Barth had described, and it weighed at least the four pounds and a half Avoirdupois which he had made it by his calculations. Leopold was tremendously excited, as he seated himself on the brink of the hole, with the shot-bag in his hand.
The equipment of Gerald was soon completed, and with the shot-bag and powder-horn slung over his shoulder, and the long rifle in his hand, he soon presented the appearance of a backwoodsman hastening to the theatre of war.
But he did not wish to say a word about the hidden treasure even to Stumpy. He was startled when he heard the voice of his friend, and, without deciding at that moment upon his future course, he dropped the shot-bag into the hole from which he had taken it, and hastily covered it with sand to the depth of a foot, in fact, filling up the smaller hole he had made.
In the matter of luxuries we were modest we took none along but some pipes and five pounds of smoking tobacco. We had two large canteens to carry water in, between stations on the Plains, and we also took with us a little shot-bag of silver coin for daily expenses in the way of breakfasts and dinners. By eight o'clock everything was ready, and we were on the other side of the river.
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