uccaneers' treasure is at Tortugas, as is well known.

"This Dimanche was at once asked if he had found Christophe's treasure,
for where else would a man find Spanish doubloons of a century ago? It
was plain, Yes!

"Well, what would you? President Hippolyte sent for him. He offered to
make him a general, a full general, if he would but tell where he had
found the treasure. He showed him the uniform. It was gold laced, yes,
gold lace all over! Dimanche was nearly tempted, but not quite.

"Then they let him come back here, to Cap Haitien, Yes. All the day and
all the night he was kept under watch. Ah, that was a strict watch!
Every one of the guards thought that he might be the one to get clue to
the place of the buried treasure, look you!

"But the general here, at that time, was not a patient man, No! Besides,
he wanted the treasure. He wanted it without having the President of the
Republic know. With sixty-five million gourdes he might push away the
President and be president himself, who knows?

"What would you? The general put Dimanche in prison and put him to the
question (torture) but Dimanche said nothing. Ah, he was stubborn, that
Dimanche. He said nothing, nothing! The general did not dare to kill
him, for he knew that the President had given orders to have the man
watched.

"So the prison doors were set open. Pouf! Away disappears Dimanche and
has not been seen since. He still carries the secret of the treasure of
Christophe--that is, if he is not dead."

"But didn't the President try to find the hoard on his own account?"
asked Stuart.

"But, most surely! My father was one of the soldiers in the party which
searched in all the wonderful palaces that Christophe had built for
himself in 'Without Worry,' in 'Queen's Delight,' in 'The Glory,' in
'Beautiful View,' yes, even in the haunted Citadel of La Ferriere. No, I
should not have liked to do that, it is surely haunted. But they found
nothing.

"Me, I think that the money is in the citadel. Has not the ghost of
Christophe been seen to walk there? And why should the ghost walk if it
had not a reason to walk? Eh?"

"That does seem reasonable," answered Stuart, in response to the
soldier's triumphant tone.

"But, most sure! So, Boy," the guard concluded, "it is easy to see why
the General does not like any 'white' to go to the Citadel. Perhaps the
'white,' whose horses you look after, has seen Dimanche. Who knows? So
he will not be let get up there. Y