Excerpt from The Hidden Treasures, or Martha's Triumph: A Drama in a Prologue and Four Acts Mark. I wonder how this is going to end. I feel a little nervous about it, but I must shake off that kind of feeling. My mind is made up, I am determined to get possession of Joe Stone's property. I kw he has got it, and I don't see the use of his hoarding it up. His mine turns out very well. I can get work-but I'm t particular about that, for I don't like to feel obliged to work continually and earn only a little at a time. But I must have money and I don't kw of any easier way to get it than to take that. I may t succeed but if he will t tell me where it is, why, - I shall be obliged to get rid of him, then I can search for it myself, without any interruption from him. There is one else has any claim on it except his little girl, and she is too youDg to think much of it w; so I will risk it any way. I'll see him to-night, that i3 what I am here for, and if it comes to blows, to save trouble I will leave this place for a time, uutil it is all forgotten. Now I'll go and wait for him down tbe road, 'tis most time he was here.(exit l. u. s. Enter Susan, r. 1 e. Susan. I declare I am so tired I don't kw what to do. I have search-sd everywhere for my brother Ben, and t a trace of him could I get. No one has seen him to-day. Well I expect something dreadful has happened to him, for I have felt all day as though some terrible blow was going to fall on us. I wish I knew what to do, or where to go. Just as like as anything, he has been off fishing gone to sleep and fallen into the river and is drowned. Oh, dear I don't kw what I should do. ( whistle heard of r.-looking in that direction.) There he comes w, after all my worry he is safe, and I am so thankful. Enter Ben. r. I e. with basket, fishing pole, etc. Ben. (laughing) Ha, ha, ha, why Susie, what is the matter? You look as though you would like to give me a taste of birch, if there was any of it around here, which I am very glad is t the case. Susan. Yes, I should just like to do that, and you kw you deserve it too. But come, tell me where you have spent the day. Such a fright as you have given me. Ben. Well, I am very sorry Susie, indeed I am. I didn't suppose I wa3 worth worrying about. But to answer your question. I have been fishing don't you see? Susan. Yes, as far as lines and basket go, I should infer that had been your occupation. But I fail to see any fish. Ben. No, I suppose you don't see them, since 1 haven't opened my basket. (opens basket) Look w, what do you think of that? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.