“But where in the cave?” wondered Beth out loud. “We could dig forever. And which woman didn’t know what to do? What has that to do with any of this?”
Mrs. Lomber pointed out that the last sentence might be a Mother Goose clue to finding the treasure. But what could it mean?
“Let’s take one thing at a time,” said David.
“We should go into the cave, and then figure out what to do.”
It was a a good thing that Carrie remembered to take the Mother Goose book. “You know that Captain Patch said that the answers lie in Mother Goose. We have been successful with the nursery rhymes so far."
Jeff and Anna, and even the Lombers still had their doubts about this whole thing, and had been thinking that it could be a big hoax.