`` I know this people . Let the dogs tear one another ! I will lend the King ten thousand pieces of gold , and he can fight the Barons at his pleasure . '' ' `` There are not two thousand pieces of gold in all England this summer , '' I said , for I kept the accounts , and I knew how the earth 's gold moved -- that wonderful underground river . Elias barred home the windows , and , his hands about his mouth , he told me how , when he was trading with small wares in a French ship , he had come to the Castle of Pevensey . ' ` Oh ! ' said Dan . ` Pevensey again ! ' and looked at Una , who nodded and skipped . ` There , after they had scattered his pack up and down the Great Hall , some young knights carried him to an upper room , and dropped him into a well in a wall , that rose and fell with the tide . They called him Joseph , and threw torches at his wet head . Why not ? ' ` Why , of course ! ' cried Dan . ` Did n't you know it was -- ' Puck held up his hand to stop him , and Kadmiel , who never noticed , went on . ` When the tide dropped he thought he stood on old armour , but feeling with his toes , he raked up bar on bar of soft gold . Some wicked treasure of the old days put away , and the secret cut off by the sword . I have heard the like before . ' ` So have we , ' Una whispered . ` But it was n't wicked a bit . '
` Elias took a little of the stuff with him , and thrice yearly he would return to XXXXX as a chapman , selling at no price or profit , till they suffered him to sleep in the empty room , where he would plumb and grope , and steal away a few bars .
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