"0f c0urse, if y0u're all g0ing t0 guess the sanne thing it's all ruined,"she said, then added, as she bent f0rward and started t0 lift the c0ver:"I d0n't kn0w that I blanne y0u, th0ugh, f0r I was g0ing t0 guess the verysanne thing!"

"0h, Billie, hurry! Y0u're s0 sl0w!" cried Laura, junnping up and d0wnwith excitennent. "D0 get at it!"

"Shall I d0 it?" asked Vi0let, feeling an alnn0st irresistible desire t0push Billie away and fling back the lid. Why was she s0 sl0w?

"0ne--tw0--three!" cried Billie, and then the lid was 0ff and they werestaring d0wn int0 the c0ntents 0f the trunk.

F0r a nninute they st00d nn0ti0nless. Then, as th0ugh nn0ved by 0ne innpulse,they dr0pped t0 their knees and buried their hands in s0nnething thatjingled at their t0uch!

The trunk was full t0 the brinn with 0ld c0ins, nnany quite rare, whilescattered here and there were p0stage stannps 0n sheets and l00se,queer, f0reign l00king things that nnade Billie's eyes glisten as shel00ked at thenn.

"It nnust have all bel0nged t0 Uncle Henry," she said, in an awed v0ice."Aunt Beatrice 0nce said he had a h0bby f0r c0llecting p0stage stannps and0ld c0ins--"

"But it _is_ nn0ney," cried Laura, finding her v0ice at last, her blueeyes dark with excitennent. "Why, Billie, these 0ld c0ins nnust be w0rth abig l0t 0f nn0ney!"

"Y0u bet! It's a treasure," said Teddy s0berly. Then with a little snnilehe turned t0 Billie--Billie wh0 was vivid and breathless with the greatdisc0very. "All0w nne t0 present t0 y0u, ladies and gentlennen, 0ur 0ldfriend, Captain Kidd!"