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"Oh, no"

"Then I'll take you soue when the moon shines

Maybe your Gulf spirit hisper to you in which of these islands the

treasures are hidden--direct you to the very spot, perhaps"

"And in a day we should be rich!" she laughed "I'd give it all to you,

the pirate gold and every bit of treasure we could dig up I think you

would kno to spend it Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or

utilized It is so to squander and throw to the four winds, for

the fun of seeing the golden specks fly"

"We'd share it, and scatter it together," he said His face flushed

They all went together up to the quaint little Gothic church of Our Lady

of Lourdes, glealare

Only Beaudelet re at his boat, and Mariequita

walked aith her basket of shri a look of childish ill

humor and reproach at Robert from the corner of her eye