The Government had been hunting for it, too, but he got to it a week ahead of us.

That was how we found who had it.

And that is why we decided to watch him ....

Do you want me to keep on prattling about these things, to convince you I'm what I say I am?
Or have you had enough?
"For instance, do you want me to tell you how Hade wound his web around a blundering fool whose help and whose hidden path and tunnel and caches he needed, in order to make sure of the treasure?
Or is it enough for me to say the dollars belong to the United States Government, and that Uncle Sam means to have them back ?" Standish still gaped at him, with fallen jaw and bulging eyes.
Gavin went on: "Knowing Hade's record and his cleverness as I do, I can guess how he was going to swing the hoard when he finished transporting all of it to safety.

Probably, he'd clear up a good many thousand dollars by selling the coins, one at a time, secretly, to collectors who would think he was selling them the only 1804 dollar outside the three already known to be in existence.