CHAPTER VI
THE ECHO CAPTURED
FLORETTA had intended to hunt for treasure, hoping to get something more valuable than the brass button that her mother had found.
She was not at all afraid of Jack Tiverton, but of those larger boys she was not quite sure.
As she knelt beneath the window she could hear only the voices of the boys that were nearest to the hut, and hearing only parts of their conversation, she could not understand what the first speaker expected to find.
"If I find it, I'll put it where it will be safe," he said.
There was a pause, and then a voice more distant replied.
She did not hear what it said, but she did hear the answer made by the boy who had first spoken.