And, last in a list
of guessings which I know to be true, they both fear some discovery, or
interruption, or danger not revealed to us, which may prevent them from
obtaining the wealth they hope to gain. They are desperately poor, Mr.
Royson. They have mortgaged their credit to its utmost extent to enable
them to keep up appearances, and they dread some catastrophe which will
interfere with our search, though the only authority we have for the
existence of the Roman legion's loot is a scrap of scarcely
decipherable writing, which, though genuine enough, may be nothing
better than a madman's dream."
"Have you told Mr. Fenshawe these things?" asked Dick. His pledged word
to von Kerber interposed an awkward barrier against that complete
confidence which he would gladly have given to one who had so curiously
amplified his own doubts.
"Yes, everything, but he only laughs, and bids me remember that I am
not yet twenty. He says that there are stranger things buried beneath
the dust of Egypt than all the learned societies have succeeded in
revealing.
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