My father can give no rich dower with his daughters; wherefore they be no match for the nobles of the land.

Oh, why was that treasure lost?
Why could no man be wise enough to trace and find it, when sure there must have been many in the secret?
Now that a generation has gone by, what hope is there left?
But for that loss my Lord of Andover would have welcomed me gladly.

The lost treasure of Trevlyn has much to answer for." Kate spoke half laughingly, half impatiently, and tapped the rush-strewn floor with the point of her shoe.

Into Cuthbert's eyes a sudden light had sprung, and leaning forward in the firelight, he laid his hand upon his cousin's.
"Kate," he said, in a low voice, "I have said naught of it before--I feared it would sound but an idle boast, an idle dream; but I am pledged to the search after the lost treasure.

If it yet lies hid, as men say it does, Cuthbert Trevlyn will find it." Kate gazed at him with wide-open eyes; but there was no trace of mockery in them, rather an eager delight and excitement that was in itself encouragement and stimulus.
"Cuthbert, what meanest thou ?" "Verily no more and no less than I say.