“It is not at all impossible.”
But the captain shook his head.
“If we do,” he said, “I would have no just claim upon it. It would be yours.”
“You shall have your share,” replied Frank; “so cheer up, man.”
The captain became a little more cheerful. Von Bulow, on the whole, did not care greatly.
But Frank yielded to Bell’s desire to first inspect the spot where the pirate ship was buried.
There was a lingering hope in the captain’s mind that the treasure might yet be reached.
So Frank and Bell put on diving suits and went out to examine the locality.
The work accomplished by the earthquake was marvelous.
It seemed as if the whole bed of the ocean had undergone a transformation.