Half a million he put them at, or more." "What good could they be to him when he was dead ?" inquired the listener.
Captain Bowers shook his head.

"That was his business, not mine," he replied.

"It was nothing to do with me.

When he died I dug a grave for him, as I told you, with a bit of a broken oar, and laid him and the bag together.

A month afterwards I was taken off by a passing schooner and landed safe at Sydney." Mr.Chalk stopped, and mechanically picking up the pieces of his pipe placed them on the table.
"Suppose that you had heard afterwards that the things had been stolen ?" he remarked.
"If I had, then I should have given information, I think," said the other.