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"Perhaps"

"Then tell asped; she choked; she could scarcely force the question for fear of disappointment "Tell me there is, Sebastian" She clutched the bars and shook thein to doubt"

The old man nodded "Oh yes, there is a treasure," said he

"God! You have seen it?" Isabel was treue "What is it like? How ive you water; I'll have you set free if you tell me"

"How old, silver coins in casks and in little boxes--the boxes are bound with iron and have hasps and staples; bars of precious es" Sebastian could hear his listener panting; her bloodless fingers rapped tightly around the bars above his head-"Yes! Go on"

"There are ornaments, too God knows they must have come from heaven, they are so beautiful; and pearls fro the truth?"

"Every peso, every bar, every knickknack I have handled with -place all alone? Senora, everything is there just as I tell you--and rants of title froar-plantations, they are there, too Don Esteban used to fear the government officials, so he hid his papers securely Without the to no one You understand?"

"Of course! Yes, yes! But the jewels--God! where are they hidden?"

"You would never guess!" Sebastian's voice gathered strength "Ten thousand men in ten thousand years would never find the place, and nobody knows the secret but Don Esteban and me"

"I believe you I knew all the time it was here Well? Where is it?"

Sebastian hesitated and said, piteously, "I aive you water, but first tell me where--where! God in heaven! Can't you see that I, too, a?"

"I must have a drink"

"Tellthe speaker's eyes, laughed hoarsely

At the sound of his unnaturalShe stared at the slave's face in amazement and then in fury She sta!"