aught happeneth
d m

but according to God's will. And now farewell, Edward, till we
a n

shall meet in heaven. My moneys have I hid, and on account thereof
s m o

I die unto this world, knowing that not one piece shall Cromwell
u n

touch. To whom God shall appoint shall all my treasure be, for
t a b

nought can I communicate.
c

When he had done he wrote these initials in a line:

DEadmansmountabc

He stared at them for a little--then he saw.

/Great heaven! he had hit upon the reading of the riddle./

The answer was:

"/Dead Man's Mount,"

followed by the mysterious letters A.B.C.

Breathless with excitement, he checked the letters again to see if by
any chance he had made an error. No, it was perfectly correct.

"Dead Man's Mount." That was and had been for centuries the name of
the curious tumulus or mound in his own back garden. It was this mount
that learned antiquarians had discussed the origin of so fiercely, and
which his aunt, the late Mrs. Massey, had roofed at the cost of two
hundred and fifty pounds, in order to prove that the hollow in the top
had once been the agreeable country seat of an ancient British family.

Could it then be but a coincidence that after the first word the
initial of every fifth word in the message should spell out the name
of this remarkable place, or was it so arranged? He sat down to think
it over, trembling like a frightened child. Obviously, it was /not/
accident; obviously, the prisoner of more than two centuries ago had,
in his helplessness, invented this simple cryptograph in the hope that
his son or, if not his son, some one of his descendants would discover
it, and thereby become master of the hidden wealth. What place would
be more likely for the old knight to have chosen to secrete the gold
than one that even in those days had the uncanny reputation of being
haunted? Who would ever think of looking for modern treasure in the
burying place of the ancient dead? In those days, too, Molehill, or
Dead Man's Mount, belonged to the de la Molle family, who had
re-acquired it on the break up of the Abbey. It was only at the
Restoration, when the Dofferleigh branch came into possess