THE HIDDEN TREASURE
“Tom! Oh Tom Fairfield!”
“You’ve found us at last!”
“Oh, we thought you would never come!”
Thus Jack, Bert and Dick greeted their chum--clasping Tom by the hands.
He held them off and looked closely at them. There were marks of
suffering and privation on their faces.
“You’ve had a hard time,” said Tom gently.
“You bet we have!” declared Jack, with conviction. “We are almost
starved, and worried to death.”
“And those sneaks, Sam Heller and Nick Johnson, have been standing
guard over us, and insulting us,” added Bert. “If ever they come back
to Elmwood Hall--”
“Don’t worry. They won’t dare show their faces there after this,”
declared Jack.
“But what about them?” asked Tom. “Where are they? I haven’t seen a
soul. Have they found the treasure and left?”
“I don’t believe so,” answered Dick. “They were around this morning.”
“What about Skeel and the hermit?” asked Tom.
“Oh, they’re around too,” said Jack. “They’re close after that treasure,
or think they are. My! but they’re hot against you for getting that
plan! It was the only one they had, it seems, and they’ve been working
in the dark without it. That’s why they captured us. They thought they’d
get you, too, I guess, and that you’d have the plan. You managed to keep
out of their clutches, but they got us.”
“By sneaking up!” said Bert bitterly. “Say, that hermit is stronger
than I gave him credit for. He tackled me, and Skeel went for Jack.
Then Sam and Nick handled Dick.”
“They wouldn’t have, only they stunned me with a blow first,” declared
the village lad.
“Anyhow, they got us,” went on Jack, “and brought us here. We’ve been
here ever since. What happened to you, Tom?”
“Lots of things. I’ve got my boat back.” And Tom told his chums of his
adventures. “We’ll soon be out of here,” he added. “I have the boat
hidden, and we’ll make a quick run back to camp.”
“What about the treasure?” asked Bert.
“I’m willing to let it go,” said Tom. “I don’t believe there is any.
But if there is--”
“Hark!” interrupted Jack. “Someone is coming!”
They all listened. Plainly the noise of someone ascending the stairs
could be heard.
“Look out for squalls,” murmured Bert.
Tom stooped and picked up the axe he had dropped, thrusting his
electric light into his pocket. A moment later the old hermit, followed
by Professor Skeel, appeared in the secret room, while Sam Heller and
his crony Nick brought up in the background. There was a look of anger
and amazement on their faces.
“Ha!” cried the hermit. “He is here! The other one! We have them all
now!”
“Who is here?” asked Mr. Skeel, who had not seen our hero at first.
“I am!” cried the lad who had come to the rescue of his chums.
“Tom Fairfield!” gasped the former Latin instructor. “I--I am--”
“Yes, I’m here, and I’ll see that you give an account of yourself!”
snapped Tom. “You’ve been carrying things with too high a hand. You’re
at the end of your rope now!”
He faced the conspirators with the hatchet in his hand. Mr. Skeel and
the two sneaking lads shrank back. Not so the old hermit. With a snarl
of rage he sprang forward at Tom.
“And so you come!” he cried. “You come after my treasure that I have
sought so long! You would rob me! But you shall not. You have the
paper, but I will get it from you! I will yet find my treasure!”
He made a leap for Tom. Instinctively our hero stepped back, and, as he
did so he tripped, and would have fallen had he not leaped to the rear.
He came up against a wall with a crash, and his hatchet flew from his
hand and also struck the partition. Then something happened that caused
them all to stare in amazement.
There was a grinding noise, a snapping sound, and a portion of the
solid wall slid down and out of sight. A recess was thus opened, and
when the dust of many years had cleared away they saw in the opening
through the dim light, a small brass-bound box. For a moment they
stared in amazement, and then the old hermit, with a scarcely human
cry, leaped forward.
“The treasure! My treasure!” he cried. “I have found it at last! The
treasure of the old mill! It has given up the secret it held so long!”
He reached into the compartment, drew the box to him, and fell across
it fainting.
“Help him!” cried Tom. “The shock has been too much for him! Get water,
somebody!”
“Get him out of there,” advised Jack. “The air is foul, and that may
have caused him to faint.” Indeed a damp, unpleasant, musty odor
filled the room from the secret hiding place of the box.
Dick and Bert dragged the old hermit from the box, and, making a pillow
from some bags, they laid him out on the floor, while Tom forced
through his lips some of the water left for the boy prisoners.
“Where am I? What happened? Is my treasure safe?” the old man murmured
as he opened his eyes.
“Yes, it’s safe,” said Tom, soothingly. The hermit’s tone was very
different now. He seemed to have lost his vindictive spirit. “It’s
safe,” went on Tom, “unless--” He thought of Mr. Skeel and the two
lads, but they had slipped away. They evidently realized that, as the
hermit had the box, the game was up. “It’s surely safe--if there’s any
treasure in the box,” added our hero with conviction, now that he saw
that the conspirators had vanished.
They gave the old man some more water, and soon he was himself again,
but his wild manner had gone. It seemed to vanish with the finding of
the box.
“There it is,” he murmured, as he sat beside it. “The box I have sought
so long. I knew it was somewhere in the mill, or about it, but I never
could find it, though I hunted everywhere. When I had the plan I was
sure I would be successful, but we lost it. Now it doesn’t matter. Oh,
I shall live in peace and happiness now!”
“Maybe we’d better open the box,” suggested Tom. “It may be empty.”
“Oh, don’t say that!” cried the old man in agony. “It can’t be empty.
The treasure must be in it.”
And it was, as they saw when Tom forced the case open with the hatchet.
Not a very great treasure to be sure, but amounting to some thousands
of dollars.
It consisted of English gold pieces, some ancient gold and silver
dishes, more valuable as antiques and relics than for the metal in
them. There was also considerable jewelry that would fetch good sums
for the same reason. And there were also Bank of England notes in a
large sum, as good as the day they were issued. It was a treasure
indeed to the old man, and would keep him in comfort the rest of his
life.
“Jove! but this is a great find!” exclaimed Jack. “And to think it came
about by accident! You are all to the good, Tom.”
“I wonder what has become of Skeel and those lads?” asked Bert.
“They’re far enough off now,” said Tom. “But shall we help you down
with your box?” he asked of the hermit.
“No, I had rather stay here. I have lived here for many years, except
when I was off in the woods looking for the treasure. I am sorry I was
so harsh to you, but I thought you were trying to rob me.”
“We intended giving you the treasure if we found it,” said Tom, gently.
“Of course you did not mean it, but you have treated my friends very
badly.”
“It was that scoundrel Skeel,” murmured the old man. “He urged me to do
it. I am sorry I ever trusted him.”
And then he told his story. It was substantially the same as Tom had
heard from his father. Years before, fearing an attack by the Indians,
the early settlers of Wilden had put their wealth into the box and
fled. The box was hidden in the old mill, which had been built with the
secret rooms and passages as a hiding place, and one of defense against
the savages.
But the fleeing settlers never returned, though the story of their
hidden treasure survived for many years. Mr. Wallace was a direct
descendent of one of them, and he preserved faith in the old legend,
and hunted for the treasure until his mind became affected.
Then came the advent of Tom and his chums. It was merely a coincidence
that Mr. Skeel went camping in the vicinity of the old mill, as did
also Sam and Nick. The bullies fell in with their former teacher. The
latter had heard the story of the treasure in the mill, for it was
common gossip, and, being of a grasping nature, he determined to have
a try for it. He enlisted the aid of Sam and Nick, and, in some way,
managed to become friendly with the old hermit.
The latter had, in searching among some old papers of his ancestors,
found the original plan of the mill. It showed many things, but not
where the treasure was, though if he had carefully measured the real
and apparent thickness of the walls he might have come upon the box
itself, as he did the secret staircase.
Professor Skeel, representing that he was an expert in such matters,
managed to get possession of the plan, only to lose it. Suspecting that
Tom and his chums had it, he planned their capture, and did get all
but our hero. This was after Sam and Nick had taken away the motorboat
and hidden it. Then, when they had it, they were so careless that it
floated away and Tom recovered it.
Of course the existence of the secret staircase, and the hidden room,
where the boy prisoners were kept, was known to the hermit, who
revealed them to the professor and the two cronies. After Jack, Dick
and Bert were locked up, the vain hunt for the treasure went on, but
without success until Tom, accidentally hitting the secret spring,
revealed it.
There were two ways of getting on the hidden stairway. One was from
inside the mill, the door being cleverly concealed. The other way was
through the outside tunnel, by which Tom came, but this had not been
used by the hermit in years, and he had piled stones at the egress. But
the voices of Tom’s chums, traveling through an old flue, and down the
tunnel, had revealed it to our hero.
“Well, I don’t know as we have anything more to stay here for,”
remarked Tom, a little later, when they had made the old hermit
comfortable, and had ascertained that he had food enough to last him.
“We might as well get back to camp.”
“Oh, boys!” began the aged man, “I--I must ask your forgiveness for
what I have done. But I--I think I was not--not exactly myself at
times. I did so want that treasure! And now I have it--thanks to you. I
suppose I should share it with you, and if you think--”
“Not a bit of it!” interrupted Tom heartily. “We have all the money
that is good for us, I guess. You need it more than we do. I hope it
will keep you in comfort.”
“It will,” said the old hermit. “I don’t want much, now that I have my
treasure.”
They left him, promising to see him again, and soon they had departed
from the old mill. Before they left Tom found out how the secret door
worked, leading from the second floor to the hidden staircase. Part of
the wall was counter-poised with weights, and worked easily, once the
right spring was touched.
The motorboat was found just where Tom had hidden it, and soon he and
his chums were speeding back to their camp. They looked for Mr. Skeel,
and Sam and Nick, but saw nothing of them. Nor, in fact, did they meet
them for some time after that.
“And now for a good meal!” cried Dick, when the crowd was back at the
tents. “I guess it’s your turn to cook, Tom.”
“I guess so,” laughed our hero. “I’ll soon have some grub for you.”
“We’re nearly starved,” added Dick. “Nothing much to eat in the old
mill.”
“Yes, it was almost as bad as when we went on a strike in Elmwood
Hall,” said Bert. “Get busy, Tom.”
And, at the meal, and beside the cheerful glow of the campfire, they
lived over again the adventures through which they had passed in the
strenuous weeks they had spent in camp.
“And there really was a treasure, after all,” said Bert. “I hardly
believed it.”
“I don’t know whether I did or not,” said Tom, “but I made up my mind
I’d prove it, one way or the other.”
“And you did,” commented Jack, with a laugh. “You generally do what you
set out to, Tom.”
“Even to getting a meal up for a hungry crowd,” put in Dick.
“And as good a one as I could myself,” spoke Bert, passing his plate
for more fried chicken.
“And now we’ll enjoy camp life, without worrying about hidden
treasure,” said Tom. “Ho! for good times from now on!”
And they had them. They learned later, that the old hermit sold the
plate and jewels, and wisely converted his treasure into cash, which he
put in the bank. It was sufficient for his simple needs for many years.
A distant relative induced him to leave the mill and live with him, and
the old man passed the rest of his years in peace.
“Well, I wonder what we’ll do this fall?” asked Jack one day about a
week later, as they were out on Lake Woonset in the motorboat.
“Go back to school, of course,” said Tom with a laugh, “and have some
more fun.” What our hero and his chums did will be told of in the next
volume of this series, to be entitled, “Tom Fairfield’s Pluck and Luck;
Or, Working to Clear His Name.”
“Well, this is certainly great!” declared Jack that night, as they
stood on the shores of the lake, and watched the moon rise over the
trees. “It’s been the best vacation I ever knew.”
“Same here!” chorused Bert and Dick.
“Yes, it was lively enough,” agreed Tom. And as they turned into their
cots we will take leave of them.
THE END
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