l we get home. But enough, I'll gamble
to stake you to a new start. Now, let's get going. And good luck to
poor old Barlow. It's his game to play his way."

They slipped out into the gulf, Nigger Ben and Philippine Charlie
content to accept the explanation Kendric gave them of Barlow's
absence. Bruce, taciturn and moody, went to the stern and stood
looking back toward the black line of the receding coast until long
after darkness blotted it out. Kendric went to Betty's cabin and
rapped.

"Will you come for a moment to the main cabin?" he asked.

When she came he had a lamp on the table. He shut the door and locked
it. Then, without a word between them, he began emptying his pockets.
She saw him pile up a great number of little square bars that clanked
musically.

"Solid gold," he said gravely.

Then he poured forth the pearls. There was strings and loops,
necklaces and broad bands made of many strings laced together. They
shone softly, gloriously there in the swaying cabin of the _Half Moon_.
The finest of them all fashioned into a superb necklace he threw with a
sudden gesture about Betty's throat.

"And on top of all that--we're headed for home!" said Kendric.

"Home!" Betty's eyes shone more gloriously than the pearls.

"And thus ends our little camping trip. Tell me, Betty, haven't you
any desire for a real camping trip in our own mountains? That place
that I know, where the little hidden valley is and the lake----"

"Tell me about it," said Betty.

Pearls and gold heaped on the table, pearls about Betty's throat, and
they talked of pack and trail and a little green lodge to be made of
fir boughs.

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