The boys gave a cry of amazement as they glanced down into the opening below the stone.
It was filled with gold.
Coins of every size and description seemed to have been tumbled promiscuously into the hole.
There were thousands of them, and as they were all gold, of course represented a very large sum.
“Well, I declare!” said Jack; “it does seem as though Dame Fortune was determined to heap riches upon us. Never in all my life have I heard of any one striking such a run of luck as we have during the last few days.”
“You propose to take it then?” asked Harry.
“Well, rather, and don’t you forget it.”
“How do you think it came to be here?”
“I haven’t the least doubt in the world that it’s the hoard of another gang of pirates.”
“Looks like it. Can we carry it all?”