But he kept turning over the incident and inspecting it from all sides.

There were others a-treasure hunting; persons unknown; and a man might easily become desperate in the pursuit of two-million francs, almost half a million of American money, more, for some of these coins would be rare.

He had thoroughly searched the ground outside the cellar-window, but the sea gravel held its secret with a tenacity as baffling as the mother-sea herself.

There was a new under-groom, or rather there had been.

He had left, and where he had gone no one knew.