At all events, in a few minutes Ed keeled over and knew no more.
CHAPTER VII.
THE FATE OF AN INFORMER.
And after all these efforts the Bradys seemed to have accomplished nothing more than to find themselves with a dead Chinaman on their hands, besides the recovery of the cash.
"What are we to do?" demanded Harry when at last they had finished their examination and talk.
"I suppose we may as well go for the girl," said Old King Brady. "That's our job, I believe."
"And to recover the money and the papers."
"The money we have already got; the papers, I think, will come; perhaps they may prove useless now. The boy has evidently been diving for the treasure. Very likely he has recovered it. Hard to say."
"And this dead Chink?"