But the lighthouse service has pretty well put a stop to that." "This chap I was speaking about,--the fellow who told me so much about this region," said Gavin, "told me there is supposed to be pirate gold buried in more than one of these keys." "Rot!" snorted Milo with needless vehemence.

"All poppycock! Look at it sanely for a minute, and you'll see that all the yarns of pirate gold-including Captain Kidd's--are rank idiocy.

In the first place, the pirates never seized any such fabulous sums of money as they were credited with.

The bullion ships always went under heavy man-o'-war escort.

When pirates looted some fairly rich merchant ship there were dozens of men to divide the plunder among.