He told me all about her, and about the treasure." "What treasure ?" Mrs.Cunningham said.

"I don't know what you mean." He then told her of the story his uncle had related, and how he had been prevented from giving full instructions for its discovery, the only clew being a gold coin and the word Masulipatam, and that this treasure had been left equally divided between him and Millicent by his will.
"He told me that he should provide for you," Mrs.Cunningham remarked, "when I said that it would be unfair that you should be brought up believing yourself the heir.

I never heard any more about it, but I am glad that it is so." "I fancy the chance of its coming to either of us is very small," Mark said; "a coin and a word are not much to go upon.

I have not the most remote idea what they mean, and whether the treasure is in England or in India, Heaven only knows." "Possibly, when he made the will, he may have told the solicitors where it was, and instructed them to keep it secret until the time that Millicent came into possession of the estate." "It is just possible he did so, Mrs.Cunningham, but the efforts he made to speak at the last moment would almost seem to show that he had not told them, for, if he had, the matter would have been of no vital importance one way or the other.

Will Millicent be well enough to come down in the morning ?" "I hope so." "I hope so, too; but, at any rate, keep her up in her room till the afternoon.