So he left his pickaxe with one point fast between two stones, and ran to the shop.

Sandy was at work, but his father was quite willing to let him go.

Willie told them he was digging for a treasure, and they all laughed over it; but at the same time Willie thought with himself--"Who knows?
People _have_ found treasures buried in old places like that.

The Antiquary did not--but he is only in a story, not in a _high story_" (for that was Willie's derivation of the word _history_).

"The place sounds likely enough.