“How d’ye know?”
“Look at the cost of all this. Payin’ wages and all. He’s diggin’ for treasure, hain’t he? Plain as the nose onto your face. Buried treasure. Put here by them ol’ pirates.”
“Think that’s it?”
“Sure.”
“How much d’you figger them pirates buried?”
“They never bothered to bury nothin’ less’n a million. Near’s I kin find out, they allus spent their small change leadin’ a gay life in port. But when they got a million all to wunst, they up and buried it.”
“Um....”
“How much d’you figger would make you rich enough?”
“Wa-al, if I was to have say fifty thousand dollars out at interest——”
“Me, too, and, mate, this here’s the first chance I ever see to come by that sum of money.”