"It's no use to look anywhere," she answered, "for the gold is not there."
"Not there? Then has it been found?"
"Yes," she replied.
"And do you know where it is?"
"It is here," she said, stamping her little bare brown foot upon the earth floor of the hut near one of the posts.
"Buried!" Jack exclaimed. "Who found it?"
"You must not ask me that," the girl replied. "I suppose they will kill me for what I have told you already."
"Not if I know myself, they won't!" Jack exclaimed. "Is this fellow your father?"
"Not exactly," Maria answered. "My father died, and Felipe married my mother. And he treats me very badly," she added.