“No, they think they will, but they generally forget the marks, or else they die. Anyway, it lays there a long time and gets rusty; and by and by somebody finds an old yellow paper that tells how to find the marks⁠—a paper that’s got to be ciphered over about a week because it’s mostly signs and hy’roglyphics.”

“Hyro⁠—which?”

“Hy’roglyphics⁠—pictures and things, you know, that don’t seem to mean anything.”

“Have you got one of them papers, Tom?”

“No.”

“Well then, how you going to find the marks?”