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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt:...Skipper Ruf was very much moved. "But what has this to do with Mlle. Norette?" I said to him.... "Listen to me! I don't know if you are annoyed about the treasure, and if on that account you are making up to Mlle. Norette. But, some time ago, I heard it said that the secret of this treasure was transmitted from mother to daughter in the Gazan and Galfar families, who always marry amongst each other. Consequently, Mlle. Norette would get it from the late Mme. Honnorat, who was a Galfar. "However," Skipper Ruf concluded, "you know your own business best. I had foreseen this; you were warned. What have you come to seek in these wild parts? And why don't you return tomorrow to the little 'Camargue' where Tardive is expecting us. There you can fish, helped by Ganteaume, and catch the 'castagnore,' the fish of St. Peter, and when evening comes, you can go tranquilly to bed in the cabin, hstening to the tinkling of Arlatan's bell, without having any horrid anxieties?" CHAPTER XXVII SENTIMENTAL PEEPLEXITIES Shall I go, or shall I stay? Should I listen to Skipper Ruf's prudent advice, or persist in following up what is, after all, only a fanciful dream? I am perplexed by this dilemma. If I leave Puget-Maure, it will look as if I were afraid of Galfar and his threats, and I object to that. On the other hand, if I stay, I am only half pleased with the comedian's part I should have to play. Shall it be said that I am here for a money interest; yes, a financial gain, since a fortune is at the end of my search, all the time pretending to be fond of Mlle. Norette when I am not? I can remember the feeling of pity, mixed with disgust, I formerly had for those worthy people, as society calls them, who would not have told a lie to another, b...