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But Pilon stood over him, and the trench
stretched around the treasure place. It did no
good to profess sickness, hunger, or weak
ness. Pilon was inexorable, and Joe's crime of
the blanket was held against him. Although
he whined, complained, held up his hands to
show how they were hurt, Pilon stood over
him and forced the digging.
Midnight came, and the trench was three feet
down. The roosters of Montery crowed. The
moon sank behind the trees. At last Pilon
gave the word to move in on the treasure. The
bursts of dirt came slowly now; Big Joe was
exhausted. Just before daylight his shovel
struck something hard.
'Ai,' het cried. 'We have it, Pilon.'
The find was large and square. Frantically
they dug at it in the dark, and they could not
see it.
'Careful,' Pilon cautioned. 'Do not hurt it.'
The daylight came before they had it out.
Pilon felt metal and leaned down in the gray
light to see. It was a good-sized square of
concrete. On the top was a round brown plate.
Pilon spelled out the words on it:
UNITED STATES
GEODETIC SURVEY
1915
ELEVATION 600 FEET
Pilon sat down in the pit and his shoulders
sagged in defeat.
'No treasure?' Big Joe asked plaintively.
Pilon did not answer him. The Portagee in
spected the cement post and his brow wrin
kled with thought. He turned to the sorrowing
Pilon. 'Maybe we can take this good piece of
metal and sell it.'
Pilon peered up out of his dejection. 'Johnny
Pom-pom found one,' he said with a quietness
of great disappointment. 'Johnny Pom-pom
took the metal piece and tried to sell it. It is
a year in jail to dig one of these up,' Pilon
mourned. 'A year in jail and two thousand
dollars fine.' In his pain Pilon wanted only
to get away from this tragic place. He stood
up, found a weed in which to wrap the wine
bottle, and started down the hill. Big Joe
trotted after him solicitously. 'Where are we
going?' he asked. 'I don't know,' said Pilon.
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