48 Make-Believe

miss it much, I suppose, if some day it
were lacking. Whereas, after a week of
birthday-cake.. . . . But I was forgetting
my friend’s story. For a whole week after
reaching the island they hunted for the
place that was marked with a cross on the
map. Then they found it.”

‘And did they get the treasure?”

“Just three golden coins and a few small
silver ones! Some one else had heard of
the cave and got a boat and come and
plundered it. These few coins had dropped
out of the great boxes they carried down
to their boat. My friend was very much
disappointed.”

“Well,” said Doris, emphatically, “1
should think he was. I hope that won't
happen to us. Have you seen a likely
place yet?”

The Visitor perceived that all the tem-
porising in the world would be of no avail.
Above the road they had been following
the land rises very steeply, and in one
place the hillside has been quarried. No