"Well, mebbe I will," replied Ed, willing to fool the fellow now that he felt he had got the game in his own hands.
Again he dove.
Descending to the base of the pile, he made his capture.
"Had the money been divided into two parcels?" he asked himself.
He could account for the presence of the two cases in no other way, and yet according to Pow Chow the paper mentioned only one.
Clutching his prize, Ed swam in and rose to the surface under the pier as he had expected.
He looked around for something to hold on to, but it was too dark to see much.
Swimming forward among the piles a few feet, he was suddenly startled by seeing a large boat right ahead of him.
At first he thought he could see a man pull down out of sight into the bottom of the boat.
Treading water and looking again, he could see nobody.