The two men looked at each other.
“I don’t see why it would not be lawfully ours as well as Poole’s,” said Frank. “Yet, I have no hankering for it.”
“Still, we might rescue it from the sea. Certainly if Poole gets it he will make no good use of it. It would be a mercy to cheat him out of it. Yet we have given him our oath——”
“Pshaw!” said Frank. “That does not count. It is not binding after what followed.”
“That is true. However, I don’t believe there is a very great chance of our finding any treasure. Let it stay down there with the drowned Caribs. Doubtless it is accursed gold.”
“I am agreeable.”
Down settled the boat.
The electric lights flashed forth, and now a remarkable scene was presented to the view of the voyagers.
In that one moment of strained gaze it was seen that the hypothesis of the Sunken Isthmus was a thrilling truth.
It was an exciting fact.