Accordingly, he insisted upon giving Mr.and Mrs.Elmer each two hundred dollars, and Mark, Ruth, and Jan each one hundred dollars.

As neither of the children had ever before owned more than five dollars at one time, they now felt wealthy enough to buy the State of Florida, and regarded each other with vastly increased respect.

While their father took charge of this money for them, he told them they might invest it as they saw fit, provided he and their mother thought the investment a good one.
At daylight next morning the Nancy Bell again spread her sails, and soon Key West was but a low-lying cloud left far behind.

For three days they sailed northward, with light winds, over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

On the evening of the third day a bright light flashed across the waters ahead of them, and "Captain Li" said it was at the mouth of the St.Mark's River.