One day, digging near this creek, I struck something embedded deep below the surface.

Well, gentlemen, it wasn't gold, but something worth more to me than gold or silver.

Here it is." At a sign the alcalde unlocked the doors and threw them open.

They disclosed an irregular trench, in which, filled with sand, lay the half-excavated stern of a boat.
"It was the dingy of the Trinidad, gentlemen; you can still read her name.

I found hidden away, tucked under the stern sheets, mouldy and water-worn, some clothes that I recognized to be the baby's.