Pomp picked up a rust eaten fragment of a sword handle from the cabin table.
A few pieces of money also lay thereon.
They were gold doubloons and perfectly well preserved.
Passing through the cabin, Frank went into the galley.
From there he went forward through what was evidently the ship’s magazine.
Here he pushed open a door, the locks of which had rusted.
A square compartment was seen, and a number of steel and brass boxes lay piled one upon the other.
This was the treasure chamber of the ship.
It required but a slight blow with the ax to batter off the lid of the first box.
Frank had looked for a heap of gold and silver.