"Good heavens! Suppose somebody should find it?
What about your word to Don Silvio then ?" "I've got it somewhere," said the captain, brusquely; "I'll have a hunt for it.

All the same, I don't know that it's quite fair to interfere in a bet." Miss Drewitt waved the objection away, remarking that people who made bets must risk losing their money.
"I'll begin to save up," said Mr.Tredgold, with a lightness which was not lost upon Miss Drewitt.

"The captain has got to find it before you can see it, Chalk." Mr.Chalk, with a satisfied smile, said that when the captain promised a thing it was as good as done.
For the next few days he waited patiently, and, ransacking an old lumber-room, divided his time pretty equally between a volume of "Captain Cook's Voyages" that he found there and "Famous Shipwrecks." By this means and the exercise of great self-control he ceased from troubling Dialstone Lane for a week.

Even then it was Edward Tredgold who took him there.

The latter was in high spirits, and in explanation informed the company, with a cheerful smile, that he had saved five and ninepence, and was forming habits which bade fair to make him a rich man in time.
[Illustration: "He ransacked an old lumber-room."] "Don't you be in too much of a hurry to find that map, captain," he said.
"It's found," said Miss Drewitt, with a little note of triumph in her voice.
"Found it this morning," said Captain Bowers.