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A Miscellany of Men

Perhaps he dimly felt that the boy's pirate tales are true; and that buried treasure is a thing for robbers and not for producers. Perhaps he thought there was a curse on such capital on the coal of the coal-owners, on the gold of the gold-seekers. Perhaps there is.

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