‘We can’t take it with us today,’ said his friend. ‘What can we do with it? Put it back under the floor?’
‘Yes,’ said Injun Joe. (happy faces upstairs.) ‘No! (Very unhappy faces upstairs.) Let’s put it under the cross – nobody goes there. We can take it there tonight.’
When night came, the two men carried all the money away. The boys did not go after them because they were afraid of Injun Joe. But they wanted very much to find that ‘cross’.
For a week the two boys thought and thought about the treasure. It was ‘under the cross’, but where was the cross? In St Petersburg the boys watched the ‘Spaniard’ carefully, but they didn’t see a cross, and they didn’t find the treasure.
