As usual Barney and Pomp were left aboard. Frank and Wade quickly donned their diving-suits.
Then they left the cabin and soon were striding along the beach. They had not gone a dozen yards before Wade paused.
There, imbedded in the sand, was a skeleton. The fishes had long since eaten away all but the bones. Whether it was the skeleton of one of the gold hunters or a Carib it was not easy to guess.
Other skeletons were also found in the vicinity. Then they reached the mouth of the cave.
Here were found the rusted digging tools of the gold diggers. Also a huge cavity in the cavern floor was revealed.
And partly upon its verge there was a huge chest, with one end knocked out. In the chest was a heap of round objects. They were coins.
Much corroded they were, and as Frank and Wade picked up several of them it was hard to tell whether they were gold or merely silver.
There were others strewn in the sands of the cavern. The cavity in the sands did not seem to contain any other chest.
If this was the total amount of the treasure it certainly was small, and did not greatly pay for the effort to recover it. However, Frank and Wade had begun to make preparations to remove it when a startling thing happened.
Suddenly into the cavern there flashed a light. Astonished the two divers turned. Two forms were at the entrance.