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"I should have been more careful about allowing you to take the box. There was something else " "Oh, Daddy! what? I didn't know there was a secret compartment in the treasure-box," she added wonderingly. "You would scarcely understand, my dear," he told her with a heavy sigh. "It was but a shallow place. There were letters in it letters which I treasured above everything else in the box.
The box was on my troonk and when Willie come up the stairs for it, I grab de box and pitch it up hyar. I don't know you vant it, Janice and your fader." "Well," sighed Broxton Day, when he heard the good news and had the treasure-box in his hands, "'All's well that ends well. But what a peck of trouble that Swedish girl made us!" "No, no I" exclaimed Janice warmly. "I did it. It was my fault.
"As it's going with the express now it's all the same," said the inevitable humorist of the occasion, pointing to the despoiled express treasure-box already in the road. The intention and deliberation of the outrage was plain enough to Hale's inexperience now. Yet he could not understand the cool acquiescence of his fellow-passengers, and was furious.
"Then why does not the negro boy go and dig it up again, very naturally?" "Ah, for the best reasons. That old Frenchman, descendant of Jean Lafitte, was no fool. What does he in this burial of treasure? Ah! He takes him a white parrot, a black cat and a live monkey, and these three, all of them, he buries on top of the treasure-box and covers all with earth and grass above the earth.
It was the treasure-box, sure enough, occupying a snug little cavern, along with an empty powder-keg, a couple of guns in leather cases, two or three pairs of old moccasins, a leather belt, and some other rubbish well soaked with the water-drip. "Got it at last!" said Huck, ploughing among the tarnished coins with his hand. "My, but we're rich, Tom!" "Huck, I always reckoned we'd get it.
More, Arlo Junior, who was the spring of Janice Day's deeper trouble, for if it had not been for that mischievous wight, Olga Cedarstrom could not have run off with the treasure-box! Arlo Junior had black, curly hair like his father. He had snapping brown eyes, too, and was quick and nervous in his movements. He was forever in trouble.
Should she have gone to daddy first about it? But daddy was still on crutches and was not fit to come out in this delivery wagon, that was sure. What should she say to Olga if it were she? Ought she to stop and ask a policeman to go with them to the house? And yet it was a fact that she absolutely did not know for sure whether Olga had taken the treasure-box or not.
They clear out with no words of leavetaking in some God-forsaken port other men would fear to be stranded in, and go ashore in company of a shabby sea-chest, corded like a treasure-box, and with an air of shaking the ship's dust off their feet. "You wait," he repeated, balanced in great swings with his back to Jukes, motionless and implacable.
Frequently, when rounding some projecting crag, the small treasure-box fastened on the camel literally overhung the abyss, and I held my breath and the pulsations of my heart increased as I watched horse after horse and camel after camel weather the critical point.
With Amy and her brother, the boy with the odd name, Janice often discussed the lost treasure-box. She and daddy did not speak so much together about it as at first. It seemed to be hopelessly lost. With the Carringfords Janice had become very friendly, as has been said. In the first place, Mrs. Carringford very much liked Janice Day.
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