“Now we understand each other perfectly?” said the man with the black straw hat, extending his hand.
“Perfectly,” said Chap, giving the hand a vigorous shake.
“Now good-by for the present!” said the other.
And he walked rapidly away.
CHAPTER XI.
PHILIP IS BROUGHT TO A HALT.
Chap’s bosom was now filled with a tremendous secret. Phil and the other fellows might laugh as much as they pleased when he talked about the treasure on the sunken vessel.
Now, he knew something about it, and could afford to let them sneer. The man with the black straw hat would probably depart from Boontown as soon as possible, and then he, Chap, would be the only person in that part of the country who had any positive knowledge on the subject of the wreck.
He would have been glad to tell Phil all that he had heard, but his promise to the man—which, perhaps, he had made without proper consideration—prevented this.
He found Phil asleep when he went into the house, and, as his friend asked him no questions in regard to his walk, Chap did not consider it necessary to say anything about it; and Phil went to bed without knowing that the man with the black straw hat had been there at all.