SHERLOCK NOBODY HOLMES Since Tom Slade, camp assistant, said it would be all right for Hervey to meet him at quarter of eleven under the elm tree, Hervey was only too glad to jump the rule, which was that scouts must turn in at ten thirty, directly after camp-fire.

This stealthy meeting under the old elm tree near the witching hour of midnight was quite to Hervey's taste.
He found Tom already there.
"Now for the buried treasure, hey, Slady ?" he said.
"I want you to promise me not to sing," Tom said soberly.

"Now listen," he added, whispering.

"That turtle came from way up in that mountain.

It has T.H.cut on its shell, and I think the carving is new.