"Wurrah!" cried Eli excitedly, "we be rich as Jews, Maaster Jasper."
"Come, Eli," I said, as excited as he, "give me the tools. I'll get there at once."
"We cannot do et yet," replied Eli. "In five minutes more 't'll be dark."
"What fools we were not to come before!" I said, angrily.
"No," grunted Eli; "ef people was to zee us diggin' they'd begin to 'spect summin. We mus' do et in the dark."
"How, Eli? You must be mad."
The dwarf looked anxiously at the sky.
"'T'll clear up dreckly," he replied complacently, "and the moon'll rise earlier to-night than he did last night. Ef 'tes clear moonlight we c'n zee. Ef tes'n, we must be up as zoon as ther's any light and find et afore anybody can be about."
"Spend the night here?" I cried.
"We sh'll 'ave to do that anyhow," he said. "We mus'n stay 'ere now," continued the dwarf, "we must git away. Tell 'ee, I b'leeve we be watched as et es."