"But it's the thing to do, when you find any money, you see."
"Do you think you had any share in finding it, Mr. Redmond?" asked Leopold, quietly, as he began to move towards the boat.
"I was looking on when you found it, Leopold; and it's the rule, you see, in such cases, to divy. I was here when you unearthed the thing."
"No, you were not," answered Leopold, decidedly. "I dug it before you came to Rockhaven."
"I don't claim any share of it," Stumpy put in. "Le didn't find it by accident. No part of it belongs to me, and I don't ask for a dollar of the money."
"O, you don't!" exclaimed Mr. Redmond; "then Leopold and I will divy even, you see; half to each."
"We shall not divide at all," added the skipper of the Rosabel, who had by this time reached the flat rock where the sloop was made fast.
"See here, Leopold; do I understand you to say that you are going to keep the whole?" asked Charley Redmond, very seriously. "That would be mean, you see. It would be the way a swine would do that sort of thing."
"I don't intend to divide at all, or to keep it myself. It don't belong to me any more than it does to you," protested Leopold.
"Didn't you find it?"