human
It may be that Gar'ner is digging for the buried treasure all this time, the deacon at length resumed.
gpt
That may be the reason he is so late. If so, he has nothing to dread from ice.
human
I understand you, sir, that this money is supposed to be buried on a key--in the West Indies, of course.
gpt
Don't speak so loud, Mary--there's no need of letting all 'Yster Pond know where the treasure is. It may be in the West Ingees, or it may not; there's keys all over the 'arth, I take it.
human
Do you not think, uncle, that Roswell would write, if detained long among those keys?
gpt
You wouldn't hear to post-offices in the antarctic ocean, and now you want to put them on the sand-keys of the West Ingees! Woman's always a sailin' ag'in wind and tide.
human
I do not think so, sir, in this case, at least. There must be many vessels passing among the keys of the West Indies, and nothing seems to me to be easier than to send letters by them. I am quite sure Roswell would write, if in a part of the world where he thought what he wrote would reach us.
gpt
Not he--not he--Gar'ner's not the man I take him for, if he let any one know what he is about in them keys, until he had done up all his business there. No, no, Mary. We shall never hear from him in that quarter of the world. It may be that Gar'ner is a digging about, and has difficulty in finding the place; for Daggett's account had some weak spots in it.