"If you should get hold of it what could you do with it?" pursued Dave. "You can't spend it on the Windjammers' Island. You can never get it away from there except in a stanch vessel, such as may not come along for years. I should think," added Dave, "after all the trouble you have seen grow out of the Hankers stealing what was not their own, you would take a new tack."
"How, a new tack?" demanded Daley, surlily surveying Dave from under his bushy, bent brows.
"Be square and honest. The Raven people have deceived you. I have a proposition to make you. Put this whole matter in my hands, promise to help me work it out as I think best, and I'll guarantee you two things."
"What are they?" demanded Daley.
"First, that I will soon locate the hiding-place of the treasure--which you never may."
"That's so," mumbled one of Daley's companions, "everything has been queered that we tried to do so far."
"Secondly," added Dave, "when that treasure is found, I promise, if you come in with me, to give each of you a liberal share of it."
CHAPTER XV
A PERILOUS CRUISE
The sailor Daley sat down quietly in the bow of the yawl, his face beaming.