"Where is it?" asked Leopold, now for the first time manifesting a real interest in the conversation.
"In the ground."
"Buried?"
"Yes."
Miss Liverage was very much agitated for a few moments, for she had now actually entered upon the business which had brought her to Rockhaven. Of course this important revelation was in some manner to involve Harvey Barth; but Leopold was not willing to believe that the sick man had buried any considerable sum of money, unless his speech and his life while at the hotel were both a lie.
"Will you promise to keep the secret?" demanded the woman, as soon as she had overcome in a measure her agitation.
"On the condition I said, I will," replied Leopold. "But after you have told me, if I find that anybody is to be wronged by my keeping still, I shall tell all I know."
"I'm satisfied. I hope you don't think I came down here, all the way from New York, to cheat or wrong anybody."
"I hope not. If you did, I can't do anything for you."
"You shall judge for yourself. It is just as Harvey Barth said: you are a good young man, and you will be as honest by me as you mean to be by other folks."