Those three, together with my grandfather and your father, packed and transported with their own hands this great treasure into the wood, and there entombed it.
None else knew of that night's work.

No other eye saw what was done.

They worked the whole night through, and by the tardy dawn all was done, and even the soil of the forest so cleverly arranged that none could guess at the existence of that deep grave.

And who would guess the secret of that tangled forest?
Even were it thought that the gold and silver had been hid, who would have such skill as to guess the spot, and go and filch it thence?
And yet it must have been carried away full soon.

For Nicholas Trevlyn, in his anxious greed, visited the spot not many weeks later--visited it by stealth, for he and his brother were alike in hiding, waiting for the first burst of vengeful fury to be over--and he found it gone! He thought on the first survey that all was well; but on more closely examining the ground his heart misgave him, for it appeared to him as if the soil had been moved.