Not one or two, either.

Six or eight of them, to my knowledge--and the treasure just where it was for all that.

I das'say it sounds all foolishness, but it's true for all that.

Something or other'll come, mark my word--just when they think they've got their hands on it: a hurricane, or a tidal wave, or an earthquake.

As sure as you live, something'll come; a rock'll fall down, or a thunderbolt, and somebody gets killed--And, well, the ghost laughs, but the treasure stays there all the same." "The ghost laughs ?" I asked.
"Eh! of course; didn't you know every treasure is guarded by a ghost?
He's got to keep watch there till the next fellow comes along, to relieve sentry duty, so to speak.