Don't you suppose that you have been searched?
Of course you have--probably before I came, while you were half dead on the floor.

Somebody knows that you have the gold." "Why hasn't it been taken ?" For a full minute Neil made no answer.

And his answer, when it did come, first of all was a laugh.
"By George, that's good!" he cried exultingly.

"Of course you were searched--and by Jeekum! He knows, but he hasn't made a report of it to Strang because he believes that in some way he will get hold of the money.

He is taking a big risk--but he's winning! I wonder what his first scheme was ?" "Thought I'd bury it, perhaps," vouchsafed Nathaniel, throwing himself upon the straw.