"Te great big Kidd Discovery Company is one great fixed fact--one grand success, gen-tle-men.

When ze customer come wiz his money, we shall say here is ze zing what makes you one grand fortune; invest your money and put your trust in Topman and Gusher." Here, indeed, was the capital stock on which the enterprising firm of Topman and Gusher had started a great and flourishing joint-stock company.

The boatmen listened to what they had heard with surprise and astonishment.

They, in short, firmly believed that what they had seen in the bucket was treasure taken from the place in which it had been buried by Kidd..