E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 25496-h.htm or 25496-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/4/9/25496/25496-h/25496-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/4/9/25496/25496-h.zip) NEW TREASURE SEEKERS [Illustration: THE STAIR WAS OF STONE, ARCHED OVERHEAD LIKE CHURCHES.] NEW TREASURE SEEKERS Or The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by E. NESBIT Author of "The Treasure Seekers," "The Would-Be-Goods," Etc. With Illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer [Illustration] [Illustration] New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers TO ARTHUR WATTS (OSWALD IN PARIS) FROM E. NESBIT _Montparnasse, 1904._ NEW TREASURE SEEKERS [Illustration] CONTENTS PAGE THE ROAD TO ROME; OR, THE SILLY STOWAWAY 15 THE CONSCIENCE-PUDDING 37 ARCHIBALD THE UNPLEASANT 62 OVER THE WATER TO CHINA 88 THE YOUNG ANTIQUARIES 113 THE INTREPID EXPLORER AND HIS LIEUTENANT 136 THE TURK IN CHAINS; OR, RICHARD'S REVENGE 161 THE GOLDEN GONDOLA 185 THE FLYING LODGER 209 THE SMUGGLER'S REVENGE 236 ZAIDA, THE MYSTERIOUS PROPHETESS OF THE GOLDEN ORIENT 262 THE LADY AND THE LICENSE; OR, FRIENDSHIP'S GARLAND 287 THE POOR AND NEEDY 311 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE THE STAIR WAS OF STONE, ARCHED OVERHEAD LIKE CHURCHES _Frontispiece_ DORA DID SOME WHITE SEWING 19 THEY LAUGHED EVER SO 34 AND HE WAS AWFULLY RUDE TO THE SERVANTS 69 THE OTHERS CAME UP BY THE ROPE-LADDER 73 SO OSWALD OPENED THE TRAP-DOOR AND SQUINTED DOWN, AND THERE WAS THAT ARCHIBALD 75 "WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT?" HE ASKED. "NYANG, NYANG," JANE ANSWERED TAUNTINGLY 83 WHEN FATHER CAME HOME THERE WAS AN AWFUL ROW 85 IT SEEMS THE SAILOR WAS ASLEEP, BUT OF COURSE WE DID NOT KNOW, OR WE SHOULD NOT HAVE DISTURBED HIM 94 WE WENT ROUND A CORNER RATHER FAST, AND CAME SLAP INTO THE LARGEST WOMAN I HAVE EVER SEEN 99