you asked little in a low tone as soon as the boat was out of hail of the ship for he had decided to be polite instead of violent what money asked the rather to encourage the little villain to talk than to obtain information that bag of gold replied little his oar and taking a seat on the cushions near the � i haven t it we can t go without that added little earnestly we must have money certainly j e must responded the willing to give the rogue all the rope he needed between you and me i know where it is added little of course he did and actually trembled with delight when he saw the scheme working so well as he believed little had said enough already to condemn him and the was satisfied that the gold was in the where is it asked with an eagerness which he had no occasion to assume ril tell you but i can t stop to explain the whole thing now my honor i you had the palace and cottage or bag or i shouldn t have said so come np here and take my oar added little calling to one of his associates under the middle board the knight thus addressed crawled out from under the and took his place at the stroke oar what does that mean asked astonished at this addition to his crew five more of our fellows wanted to go with us and themselves in the bottom of the boat answered little you may come out fellows it is all right now the found he had gone into the business deeper than he intended but he was not appalled only surprised at the increase of his crew now where is the money he inquired nervously when the had disposed of themselves in various parts of the do you know in the yes well he has it in his charge replied little as though he was giving his interested companion the most important and valuable information in the world which in the estimation of the it actually was but is on shore with the rest of his crew he is but the gold is not where is it then on board of the and before we go up the river we must pay her a visit we shall have a bully time do you know where she lays certainly i do v replied who was not young america in france and i i exactly satisfied with the intelligence he received isn t the gold in the no sir said little decidedly i supposed it was you were mistaken i know exactly where it is concealed on board of the where asked no you don t exclaimed the little villain who ever ready to play a trick was always on the for one i shall not give you any chance to back out you agreed to go with us i am with you then steer for the and we will get the money the was in doubt and while he was thinking of the matter little whistled as as though he had no interest in his decision you must say quick said he after a pause if you don t want to go with us i am willing to give it up but i am afraid we shall never see the gold again if we don t get it to night how came by it asked i ll explain that after we get the money it would not make a delay of more than ten or fifteen minutes to visit the and decided to let the rogue have his own way he was on the right track to obtain the bag which possibly was on board of the and the other boats would wait at the for him the put the about and little felt that he had won the victory we are all in the same boat can t you tell me now how happens to have this bag of gold palace and cottage or asked you see it is a matter of more consequence to me than to any other fellow for i have been accused of concealing it what difference does it make to you now if you are going in with us demanded little i am curious to know how i got mixed up in the scrape when i didn t know anything at all about the matter explained but you asked me a� soon as we got off from the ship if i had the gold that was only to open the subject i knew you hadn t it then but how came it aboard the ship yesterday handed it to who hid it under your berth do you know anything about the bag demanded suddenly i do replied the addressed do you added to the stroke what bag asked no he knows nothing about it interposed little no one but does i think this matter is a good deal mixed said the ril tell you about it since you are so suspicious i m not suspicious i m only curious to know how the thing was charged upon me i didn t know myself till we went ashore to day continued the ever ready little liar the on the told me he gave the bag to the man in � boat i suppose he meant i didn t know then that any other boat than ours had been young america in france and i near him but it appears that the s first had tried to haul him in and the money was handed to her took care of it for him but after th in the ship yesterday he gave it back little did not care whether hip companion believed this story or not if he would only keep still ten minutes more unfortunately the did keep still he wa intent upon finding th bag of gold and 