But he shakes his wise head and says that our grandfather and father and many another have wasted time and expended large sums of money on the work of discovery, and without success.

All of our name begin to give credence to the story that the concealed treasure was found and spirited away by the gipsy folks, who hated our house, and that it has long since been carried beyond the seas and melted into coin there.

Father and Philip alike believe that the Trevlyns will see it again no more." "Dost thou believe that, too ?" "Nay, not I.I believe it will yet come back to us, albeit not without due search and travail and labour.

O Cuthbert, thy words rejoice me.

Would I were a man, to fare forth with thee on the quest! What wilt thou do?
How wilt thou begin?
And how canst thou search for the lost treasure an thou goest to thine uncle's house in London ?" "I must fain do that for a while," answered Cuthbert; "I dare not linger so close to my father's home at this time.