But neither the boys nor the captain were interested in these pieces of woodwork. With eager eyes they scanned one section of wreckage after another. Then Randy set up a shout.
“Look here! What’s this?”
“An iron box!” came simultaneously from the others, and they rushed toward the object as speedily as their uncertain footing permitted.
“And here’s another box!” came from Jack.
“Look yonder!” yelled Captain Corning, in intense excitement. “Gold and silver dishes, as sure as you’re born!”
The master of the Firefly was right. There, amid the shattered wreckage, lay fully a score of elaborately engraved dishes and vases, a few of them silver and the others gold.
“That shows Torra hid his loot when he was aboard the yacht!” cried Jack. “And he hid it so well that up to the present time no one who has visited the wreck was able to locate it!”
They looked around further and in the end brought to light six iron boxes, as well as several other articles of gold and silver.
“Now to see what the boxes contain!” cried Jack.