"It would be effort wasted. Besides, we shall manage to keep your time so fully occupied that you will have no opportunity to search for buried treasure."
"What about those secret passages that you spoke of?" asked Grace.
"You shall see them and explore them to your hearts' content. Tom will show them to you. What Tom doesn't know about the old place, no one else does. And he knows a lot more about it than any of the rest of the family. I suspect that he has been making investigations on his own hook. He, like the boy he is, still has hopes of discovering the buried treasure."
"Is the gate open?" called Ruth over her shoulder.
"Yes. It hasn't been closed this fall."
"Then I'll drive in in style and make one of my flying stops," answered Ruth. "We'll make them think a train has left the C., B. & Q. track and is going to smash the house down. I think they will be surprised. I'll open up the exhaust just as we get to the house, make a flying stop and the noise will wake up Olive's scalped ancestors."
"Be careful that you don't hit the house in reality," laughed Olive. "Remember it is old. It might tumble down. I don't care so much about the house, but I shouldn't like to see it tumble down on father and mother."
"Oh, it will not be quite as bad as that. We shall simply be making a big noise."
"I was only joking," replied Olive. "You don't think I thought for a minute you would run into the house, do you?"
"That is exactly what I am going to do."