“Let us go on to the next compartment and find the treasure,” said Captain Bell.
“If there is any on board,” said Von Bulow, who was skeptical.
“Of course there is,” declared Bell, with a positive air. “There is no doubt of it.”
“I hope so,” rejoined the scientist.
“At least we will try and find it,” said Frank Reade, Jr. “Come along; let us waste no time in argument.”
So, with this, they passed on through the hold. The result was that they came to another compartment.
But the door of this was much stronger, and Frank was compelled to use his ax to break it in.
The heavy iron hinges, however, were so rusted that it was not a hard job.
But the sight that was revealed to the divers was an astounding one.
The compartment was, perhaps, a dozen feet square. On the floor there was piled a huge heap of coin, almost as perfect as the day it was placed there.