I lifted the back seat.

It came up like the lid of the chest it was, and beneath it I discovered enough gold and silver plate to outweigh in value almost everything that I had ever taken.

But that was by no means all.

Under the front seat there was a chest of gold--louis d'ors they were, some two or three thousand at least--and, besides that, a little iron-bound box of gems which in itself was worth more than all the rest of the contents of that treasure-casket of a coach.

I tell you, Caron, I dropped the lid of that seat in some haste, for I was not minded that my men should become as wise as I.I stepped down and bade, the women re-enter, and hither under strong escort I have brought them." "And these treasures ?" asked La Boulaye.
"They are still in the coach below, with the women.