An eleven-year-old boy proves his courage by rescuing a young girl from a shipwreck off the banks of Cape Hatteras
When the English girl Ben saved from a shipwreck recovers her memory and speech and reveals to him that two chests full of silver went down with the ship, Ben and his friends try to recover them without arousing suspicions
About to embark on a sea voyage, Ben receives word that the British girl he rescued from the sea months before is in Norfolk hiding from the authorities