spectacles at Hanz, "to affect that he cares nothing about our
discovery. Very kind of him. But we found the treasure exactly where he
said it was buried."

Hanz shook his head, and looked with an air of surprise at the speaker.
"If I tells you where dat gold und dat tirty shilver be's buried, und
you goes dar und finds him, ten I be's asleep, und ton't know what I
tells you."

"Te gen-tle-man," interposed Gusher, going off into a rhapsody of
delight, "is very modest. It is very good of him to be so modest. But
he, I am sure, will accept ze thanks of Topman and Gusher. Tis Kidd,
gen-tle-men--he must be one jolly, generous fellow. I loves tis
gen-tle-man Kidd. He bury his dollars here in bushel baskets full. We
find him, eh?" Here he again ran his hand into the sand, and drawing out
several more discolored dollars threw them on the table. "Te great big
Kidd Discovery Company is one great fixed fact--one grand success,
gen-tle-men. When ze customer come wiz his money, we shall say here is
ze zing what makes you one grand fortune; invest your money and put your
trust in Topman and Gusher."

Here, indeed, was the capital stock on which the enterprising firm of
Topman and Gusher had started a great and flourishing joint-stock
company. The boatmen listened to what they had heard with surprise and
astonishment. They, in short, firmly believed that what they had seen in
the bucket was treasure taken from the place in which it had been buried
by Kidd.