This done, we all went back to the treasure.
"It lay where he had dropped it when he was first attacked.

The box was the same which now lies open upon your table.

A key was hung by a silken cord to that carved handle upon the top.

We opened it, and the light of the lantern gleamed upon a collection of gems such as I have read of and thought about when I was a little lad at Pershore.

It was blinding to look upon them.