He had no money himself.

His uncle Martin would certainly not give him the gold in the box for any such hare-brained scheme; whilst to appeal to Sir Richard, with nothing to back his statements but what would be looked upon as old wives' fables and gipsy delusions, would only be to provoke ridicule and scorn.

The Trevlyns had long given up the treasure as lost beyond recall.

They had no sort of hope of recovering it, and the present owner of the Chase and his lady were in particular very greatly averse to any sort of dealings with occult magic and gipsy lore.
Cuthbert had a shrewd notion that there was little enough of magic in any of the words and dark sayings he had heard.

He had been let just a very little behind the scenes, and had his own opinions on the subject.