13/17 You know, Abner, as well as I do, that this is their dreadful fashion!" "I know all about that," said Abner, "and that is the reason I wish to go to-night. I do not believe there has yet been time enough for his ghost to form. But let us take him out now, dear Mary, and lay him reverently away,--and then!" He looked at her with flashing eyes. "Those treasures do not belong to the pirates. If we take them they are treasure-trove, and legally ours. |