Mr. Brown came up to his summer home that night, and, after looking at the box, wrote a letter to Mr. Ravenwood, telling how it had been found. This letter was mailed to Sea Gate, and then followed a time of waiting. In the letter Mr. Brown had told how Bunny, Sue, and Harry Slater had found the box.
"I wonder when we'll get an answer," remarked Bunny several times in the next two days.
"If the box is at all valuable Mr. Ravenwood ought to answer daddy's letter very soon," said Mrs. Brown. "I don't see how the box got into the bay and floated all the way up here from Sea Gate. It is quite a distance."
Three days after the strange find, when Bunny, Sue, and Harry were playing with Rose and Jimmie Madden near the bungalow one afternoon, Uncle Tad came up from the village with the mail.
"Here's a letter from Mr. Ravenwood, children!" said the old soldier.
"Oh, goody!" exclaimed Sue.
"Did he say his box had pirate gold in?" asked Bunny.
"I don't know. I didn't open the letter," answered Uncle Tad.
But Mrs. Brown soon read the note and, as she did so, a look of surprise came over her face.
"Yes, that is Mr. Ravenwood's box," said Bunny's mother. "He is coming here to-morrow in his motor boat to get it. But here is something else very strange. I'll read it to you," she went on. Then she read: