Summary

Chapter 16 – Billy and Georgie investigate the cave. It is full of money. They find a printing press, and realize that Mr. Garrow must be a counterfeiter. Georgie believes that Garrow sells the money at a percentage of its face value, an observation which impresses Billy. Billy worries their campfire might have been seen, or that the counterfeiters might discover them in the cave, so they flee. Billy takes along one of the printing plates as evidence. They travel through the night and don’t sleep until the dawn.

Chapter 17 – When Georgie wakes up, she sees that Billy is still asleep. She decides to walk along the river with his repeating rifle. She hears shots, and goes back to investigate. There, she discovers Billy has been tied up by Garrow and a henchman in a bowler hat named Roy. They demand to know where Georgie...