"That's the very thing you stopped me from telling you! If you knew, all the time--" "I didn't," denied Brice.

"What you said, just now, about the Caesars, gave me the clew.

The rest was simple enough to any one who knew of the treasure's existence.

There's one thing, though, that puzzles me--a thing that's none of my business, of course.

I can understand how Standish could have told you he and Hade had stumbled onto a hatful of treasure, down there, somewhere, among the bayous and mangrove-choked inlets.