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180 other marked Cave Island, a little to the eastward."

"Why, look what it says, up here!" cried Phil. Map of the Don Amorandos Treasure, buried in 1715.' Say, do you think those Englishmen"

"Hi, you! Give me that map!" bawled a voice from near by, and with a very red face, the Englishman named Geswick bore down on the boys. "How dare you look at this?" he went on, as he snatched the sheet out of their hands and folded it up.

"We wanted to see what it was and whom it belonged to," answered Dave, as calmly as he could.

"You had no right to look at it," stormed Andrew Geswick. "That is private property."

"Then why did you let it fall in our hands?" asked Phil.

"If it hadn't been for Dave, it would have gone overboard," put in Roger.

"Humph!" The man fell back a little. "Well, I am thankful for that. But you boys had no right to look at it," he grumbled.

"Why, it's only a chart, isn't it?" asked the senator's son, curiously.

"Never mind what it is!" answered Andrew Geswick, sharply. "Did you read what was on it?" he demanded, an instant later.