"I don't know. She said she didn't often trouble about the books."
"Then is the treasure hidden inside some old settle in the house?"
"It seems likely."
"In that case we must be wrong about the lantern room."
"Perhaps we are. Well, at any rate this throws new light on the subject, and gives us a clue as to where to hunt. We'll go over the Manor again, and look carefully at every settle."
"I hope we're really on the right track at last," sighed Cicely. "What a glorious day it would be if we could actually say to Monica: 'Here's your fortune!'"
CHAPTER XIII
Lindsay Makes a Resolve
Lindsay and Cicely thought they understood what a settle was, but, to avoid the possibility of any mistake, they looked the word up in the dictionary. "Settle—a long bench, with high back, for sitting on," was the explanation given by that authority.