It isn't your property, Captain Bowers?
You lay no claim to it ?" "No, no," said the captain.

"It's nothing to do with me.

You go and find it," he repeated, with enjoyment.
Mr.Tredgold laughed too, and his eye travelled mechanically towards the bureau.

"If we do," he said, cordially, "you shall have your share." The captain thanked him and, taking up the bottle, refilled their glasses.

Then, catching the dull, brooding eye of Mr.Stobell as that plain-spoken man sat in a brown study trying to separate the serious from the jocular, he drank success to their search.