Treasure of Matecumbe Page #2

Quick, help me turn this boat over.

- Can I come with you?

- I got a long way to go, Thad.

Who have I got to go

frogging with if you've gone?

And we can't call a secret

meeting at the hideout

with just one member present.

All right. Help me

shove off and climb in.

Look.

This is old man Snyder's boat.

We'll pay for it when we

get back... if we get back.

That's them. Took to the river.

They have to come ashore... sometime.

You keep reading that map,

you're gonna wear it out.

I'm just studying it.

You really think you can find that

treasure way down there in Florida?

It's a long way from Kentucky.

I don't know, but I'm sure gonna try.

Maybe there's enough gold to keep the

carpetbaggers from getting our place.

Where would you live if

they was to get Grassy?

I keep thinking what would

happen to Aunt Effie and Aunt Lou.

They've always lived there.

Your Aunt Effie and Aunt Lou'd sure

be surprised if you was to find it.

Davie, if those men catch up with us,

they might kill us, same as Ben.

I still wouldn't tell

'em where the treasure is.

- Not even if they was gonna kill ya?

- They couldn't make me.

Me neither, Davie.

I liked Ben.

Let's take a sacred

oath. We'll never tell.

- No matter what they do.

- No matter what.

Quick, Thad! It's a sternwheeler.

It's like a big plantation house

just floating down the river.

- You think they'll let us on there?

- Why not? We got money. Come on.

- How much is it as far as Friars Point?

- What class, son?

Sir?

It's five dollars for cabin class, three

for boiler, two dollars for the deck.

Two decks, please, for me and him.

There you go, boys. Straight back

there, right through the passage.

Any spot that looks

comfortable. Howdy, folks.

Is that where he lives, Friars Point?

Uncle Jim never stays anywhere long,

but that's where he was last

time he wrote Aunt Effie.

- She calls him a black sheep.

- You think your uncle'll help you?

Sure, if he's not too busy.

I guess my Uncle Jim can

do just about anything.

- Anything?

- That's what I said, anything.

Suppose he meant here?

I've slept on worse than this before.

Hey!

Little boys who know

what's good for them

do not sit on bales of cotton

spying on ladies what's hiding.

- We wasn't.

- We didn't even know you were here.

Just a minute. I'm Captain

Boomer. Your fares, please.

I believe my sister's aboard this boat.

Not having had the

pleasure, I couldn't say.

She's about five foot six.

She's wearing a wedding dress.

No one wearing a wedding

dress boarded this boat.

She wouldn't buy a ticket from the

clerk, you fool. She's a stowaway.

She hasn't got a cent. She's

trying to get to New Orleans.

If I find her, she'll be

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