CHAPTER XXI.
COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS.
The Great Discovery Company had run its race of prosperity.

A few months passed, and the prospects of those connected with it began to change.
Chapman went about Nyack shaking his head despondingly, and saying that he had been deceived by Hanz Toodleburg, who had deceived them all with his story about Kidd's treasure, and would be the cause of their losing a large amount of money.
"I never would have been caught in such a trap, but I believed Hanz Toodleburg to be an honest man, a very honest man, and I put faith in his word.

But I have been deceived.

Well, it is not the first time my confidence has been abused in this way," Chapman would say, holding up his hands, while his face assumed an expression of injured innocence.
Hanz, on the other hand, protested his innocence.

Never in all his life, he said, had he taken a dollar of money not his own, and honestly made.
He was persuaded to do what he had done by the gentlemen whom he supposed engaged in an honest enterprise.