"It is enough for me that we have got it," resumed Mr. Tredgold. "Now,
we want you to join us in fitting out a ship and recovering the treasure.
Equal expenses; equal shares."
"What about Captain Bowers?" inquired Mr. Chalk.
"He is to have an equal share without any of the expense," said Tredgold.
"You know he gave us permission to find it if we could, so we are not
injuring anybody."
"He told us to go and find it, if you remember," said Stobell, "and we're
going to."
"He'll have a fortune handed to him without any trouble or being
responsible in any way," said Tredgold, impressively. "I should like to
think there was somebody working to put a fortune like that into my lap.
We shall have a fifth each."
"That'll be five-thousand-pounds for you, Selina," said Mr. Stobell, with
a would-be benevolent smile.
Miss Vickers turned a composed little face upon him and languidly closed
one eye.
"I had two prizes for arithmetic when I was at school," she remarked;
"and don't you call me Selina, unless you want to be called Bobbie."
A sharp exclamation from Mr. Tredgold stopped all but the first three
words of Mr. Stobell's retort, but he said the rest under his breath with
considerable relish.
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