Cuthbert shrewdly suspected that he would not be able to resist the temptation of going frequently to the spot where the buried treasure lay, to see if the ground remained undisturbed, and he thought that the surest way of discovering this spot was to seek for traces likely to be left by him; or, failing these, to watch patiently from some obscure spot till the gipsy came again to the dell, when it was probable he might betray the secret by his own movements.
"If I dig and delve before the clue is mine, I may chance to put him on his guard, and find nothing.

No; I will be patient--I will be very cautious.

Success comes to him that can wait.

Long Robin is a foe not to be despised or trifled with; I can tell that from his own words and Joanna's.

He would take a hundred lives to save his golden secret.