The Will again--Searching for a clue to the paper--Barbe Rouge's Will--A probable clue--Hopes and doubts--Perplexed--A memorable trawl by moonlight--A real clue at last--The place of the skull found 207 CHAPTER XVIII. Digging for the treasure--A noonday rest--The ghastly tenant of the treasure house--We find the treasure--An account of what we discovered 217 CHAPTER XIX. Preparing to leave--A letter home--We lengthen and enlarge the "Anglo-Franc"--Re-christen her "Happy Return"--Love at first sight--Victualling and stowing cargo--Pretty Jeannette--The long voyage--Incidents en route--Vegetarians, and their diet--Yarmouth reached--Fresh-water navigation--My native heath 231 CHAPTER XX. I surprise the old folks at home--All well--Is Priscilla false--We meet--The missing letters--A snake in the grass--Dreams of vengeance 250 CHAPTER XXI. The "Happy Return" inspected--More of my father's ghost--Unpacking the treasure--Seek an interview with Walter Johnson--Two letters 257 CHAPTER XXII. M. Oudin arrives--The Wedding Day--Division of the spoil--Alec returns to Jethou--Wedding gifts--The end 265 APPENDIX. A few words about the Channel Isles 271 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. THE ISLAND OF JETHOU _Frontispiece_ 1 THE OLD HOME AT BARTON 10 MAP OF THE ISLAND OF JETHOU 35 PLAN OF HOMESTEAD 43 MY PLOUGH 47 AN ANTEDILUVIAN CHARIOT 48 "I WAS SWAMPED IN A MOMENT" 61 THE "YELLOW BOY," PLANS, ETC. 81 A PORCINE MURDER 99 ROCKS AT SOUTH END OF SARK 101 THE MAIN PATH OF THE ISLAND 113 LA CREUX DERRIBLE 119 TOO LATE! 131 A GHOSTLY VISITANT 141 "ALONG THE RUGGED CLIFF PATH" 161 RESCUE OF ALEC DUCAS 167 THE PUZZLING DOCUMENT 186, 209 A TERRIBLE FALL 187 THE TENANT OF THE TREASURE HOUSE 223 LENGTHENING THE "ANGLO-FRANC" 235 [Illustration: Frontispiece--THE ISLAND OF JETHOU] [Illustration: Decorative chapter heading] JETHOU; OR,