At this the crew peered over the boat-side eagerly.

Gering's heart beat hard.

He knew what it was to rouse wild hope and then to see despair follow, but he kept an outward calm and told the diver to go down again.

Time seemed to stretch to hours before they saw the man returning with something in his arm.

He handed up his prize, and behold it was a pig of silver! The treasure was found; and there went up a great cheer.