Crossword-Solution: PROGRESSO 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Gennaro had already drawn from his bank ten crisp one-thousand-dollar bills, and already had a copy of Il Progresso in which he had hidden the money between the sheets.

The only idea in their minds was as to whether it would be possible for them to get out of the swamp in time to take the next steamer which left Progresso for the United States, and both believed it would be a great misfortune to miss the first opportunity of reaching home.

Poyor has seen people from the city in the immediate vicinity, consequently it is advisable to keep under cover." "Do you think we will be able to leave in a week?" Teddy asked anxiously, and Cummings replied evasively: "I hope so." To Jake, who did not feel so eager to reach home by the next steamer that left Progresso, the prospect of remaining in the cave several days was agreeable rather than otherwise, and he asked: "Are we to cook any breakfast this morning?" "No, because the smoke might be seen.

When he concluded Jake indulged in but one remark before composing himself for slumber: "It don't make any difference to me whether the inscriptions can ever be read or not; but a fellow feels sore to think that he had a chance of scoopin' in enough to set himself up in great shape, an' was prevented when the precious metal was under his very fingers." "Have you any particular reason for going to Progresso?" Neal asked after a pause.

Only through the inlet leading to the lagoon could a landing be effected from a vessel, and it was at this point that the hunters had been set ashore by the craft on which they had come from Progresso.