The bonds were no more than old paper; he tossed them aside.

But the pennies and five-cent pieces were real; he lit out for the village with them.
The robbery was not discovered till morning and by that time the fellow was at 'Jake's place' on his way toward being the drunkest nigger in the county.
"He stayed at the Corners a week or so until the money was gone, then he came back to the spring-hole.

But he made the mistake of venturing out by daylight; the stable-men caught him and took him to the Colonel, and you know the rest.
"As soon as I heard the story of the beating I decided to follow it up; and when I heard of a jet black spirit rising from the spring-hole, I decided to follow that up too.

At daylight this morning I routed out one of the stable-men, and we went down and examined the spring-hole; at least I examined it while he stood outside and shivered.

It yielded an even bigger find than I had hoped for.