Augusta Huiell Seaman

“ Probably the smugglers all got caught somewhere, and never got back to their treasure, and never told where it was. Now you know all my secret!"
The magnitude of the thing was so overpowering to Doris that she could make no adequate reply, and only stammered brokenly:
"Oh, Sally—it's wonderful. It's the strangest secret I ever heard of a girl having. Thank you—a thousand times—for letting me into it. Perhaps,—who knows?—we can puzzle it out together!" ”

“ At this point Genevieve suddenly became restless, and, clinging to Sally's skirts, demanded to "go out and play in the boat."
"She does n't like to stay in here very long," explained Sally.
"Well, I don't wonder!" declared Doris. "It's dark and dreary and weird. It makes me feel kind of curious and creepy myself. But, oh! it's a glorious secret, Sally the strangest and most wonderful I ever heard of. Why, it's a regular adventure to have found such a thing as this! But let's go out and sit in the boat and let Genevieve paddle. ”

“ This is a smuggler's cave, made from those old timbers, and somewhere about it is hidden the treasure, whatever it is, and that bit of paper, if we could make anything out of it, is to tell just where to get at it. ”