“I certainly am! And if it’s there I’m going to find it! I’ve purchased a book entitled ‘Historical Greenhaven’ and have read all it has to say on the subject of Nobody’s Island and your old friend Verny. The book says that several times silver dollars and pieces of jewelry have been picked up on the beach there. That looks promising, doesn’t it?”
“Yes, but I never really heard of but one silver dollar being found, and that was so worn that you couldn’t be certain it had ever been a dollar.”
“But the book says!”
“Oh, don’t be a mule, Bee! Don’t you suppose Jack knows what he’s talking about? Books tell all sorts of lies.”
“All right. But if there’s been one dollar picked up it shows that there are more there.”
“Just how do you figure that out?” asked Hal.
“Logic, my son, logic. That’s something you aren’t acquainted with. But never mind that now. I wrote a letter to my father last night, Herrick—Say, I’m going to call you Jack, if you don’t mind?—And I told him that I was organizing an expedition to search for buried treasure and that he was to send me fifty dollars immediately to outfit the expedition.”
