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"And does he know the place now? Could he point it out?"

"Assuredly, and the master who buried it now is dead"

"Then why does not the negro boy go and dig it up again, very

naturally?"

"Ah, for the best reasons That old Frenchman, descendant of Jean

Lafitte, was no fool What does he in this burial of treasure? Ah! He

takes him a white parrot, a black cat and a live monkey, and these

three, all of them, he buries on top of the treasure-box and covers

all with earth and grass above the earth And then above the grave he

says such a hten to the death any person coro boy that he should show rew pale in terror Not for a o near that place, him"

"That also is a most extraordinary story, Jean Taken with this other

fairy tale which you have told ht, you alreat old days which this country once saw

But alas!"

"As you say, Monsieur, alas!"

"Now as to that ruffian who stole the gentleman's yacht," I resumed

"Has he reflected? Has he indeedhere in the city somewhere"

"Ah, hardly that, and if so, he well may look out for the law"