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about an hour, and after that I did n't feel like waiting much longer.'
"Well, was it anything like what the old man said?" Tempest queried.
"I don't remember much of what he did say. One queer thing he told me, though. It was about a derelict they'd found half buried in the sand on some island in the South Seas. I did n't forget the vessel's name, because it had been called after Cape Hatteras. When I got home I told Dad about it, and he said there was a boat called the Hatteras that had been lost years and years ago with a lot of platinum on board."
"Was it the same boat?" Tempest asked, lazily.
"Don't know," said Dave. "It sounded to me as though it might have been, but Dad did n't seem to think so."
"Then your old friend the sailor did n't get the treasure, eh?"
"He did n't know anything about it. You see, his ship was only sheltering off there, and they
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