"Tell me more about it, Eli?" I cried.
"Hush, we mus'n tell nobody. Aw, aw!" and again the dwarf laughed gleefully.
"There's no witchcraft, no wizard's charms about the treasure, is there? It wasn't made in hell, was it?"
"No, no; tes oal right. Granfer Fraddam was once a pirut on the 'igh says."
"Yes; I know he was once a pirate on the high seas, but what of that?"
"Well, he got the paaper from another pirut. Some do zay he ded kill un, but that ed'n true. Well, 'ee got et."
"Yes; but if he got a paper telling where the treasure was, why did he not take it away?"
"Well, Granfer cudden raid, fur wawn thing, and fur another, 'ee wos feared."
"Afraid of what?"