And if the Trevlyn treasure were but half what men believed, there would be ample to dower all three daughters and fill the family coffers, too.
"In truth it is a thing well worth living for!" cried the eager lad, as he pushed his way out of the wood and upon the highroad, where for a time travelling was somewhat better.

"And why should I not succeed even though others have failed?
My proud kinsmen have never lived in the forest themselves, learning its every secret winding track, making friends of its wild sons and daughters, learning the strange lore that only the children of the forest gather.

What chance had they of learning secrets which but few may know?
I trow none.

I will not believe that great treasure has been cast away to the four winds.

I verily believe it is still hidden away beneath the earth in some strange resting place known but to a few living souls.