



Produced by Jo Churcher





THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERS

by E. Nesbit

Being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a fortune




TO OSWALD BARRON Without whom this book could never have been written

The Treasure Seekers is dedicated in memory of childhoods identical but
for the accidents of time and space


CONTENTS

     1.  The Council of Ways and Means
     2.  Digging for Treasure
     3.  Being Detectives
     4.  Good Hunting
     5.  The Poet and the Editor
     6.  Noel's Princess
     7.  Being Bandits
     8.  Being Editors
     9.  The G. B.
     10. Lord Tottenham
     11. Castilian Amoroso
     12. The Nobleness of Oswald
     13. The Robber and the Burglar
     14. The Divining-rod
     15. 'Lo, the Poor Indian!'
     16. The End of the Treasure-seeking




CHAPTER 1. THE COUNCIL OF WAYS AND MEANS

This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure, and I
think when you have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the
looking.

There are some things I must tell before I begin to tell about the
treasure-seeking, because I have read books myself, and I know how
beastly it is when a story begins, "'Alas!" said Hildegarde with a deep
sigh, "we must look our last on this ancestral home"'--and then some one
else says something--and you don't know for pages and pages where the
home is, or who Hildegarde is, or anything about it. Our ancestral home
is in