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  Speaker 1: This is a true story of a search for buried treasure.
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  Speaker 1: The only part that is not true is the name
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  Speaker 1: of the man with whom I searched for the treasure.
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  Speaker 1: Unless I keep his name out of it, he will
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  Speaker 1: not let me write the story, and as it was
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  Speaker 1: his expedition and as my share of the treasure is
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  Speaker 1: only what I can make by writing the story, I
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  Speaker 1: must write as he dictates. I think the story should
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  Speaker 1: be told because our experience was unique. and might be
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  Speaker 1: of benefit to others, and besides, I need the money.
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  Speaker 1: There is, however, no argument preventing me from describing him
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  Speaker 1: as I think he is, or reporting, as accurately as
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  Speaker 1: I can, what he said and did, as he said
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  Speaker 1: and did it. For purposes of identification I shall call
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  Speaker 1: him Edgar Powell. The last name has no significance, but
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  Speaker 1: the first name is not chosen at random. The leader
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  Speaker 1: of our expedition, the head and brains of it, was
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  Speaker 1: and is the sort of man one would address as Edgar.
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  Speaker 1: No one would think of calling him Ed or Eddie
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  Speaker 1: any more than he would consider slapping him on the back.
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  Speaker 1: We were together at college, but as six hundred other
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  Speaker 1: boys were there at the same time, that gives no
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  Speaker 1: clue to his identity. since those days, until he came
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  Speaker 1: to see me about the treasure, we had not met.
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  Speaker 1: All I knew of him was that he had succeeded
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  Speaker 1: his father in manufacturing unshrinkable flannels. Of course, the reader
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  Speaker 1: understands that is not the article of commerce he manufactures,
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  Speaker 1: but it is near enough, and it suggests the line
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  Speaker 1: of business to which he gives his life's blood.' It
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  Speaker 1: is not similar to my own line of work, and
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  Speaker 1: in consequence, when he wrote me on the unshrinkable flannel's
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  Speaker 1: official writing paper that he wished to see me in
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  Speaker 1: reference to a matter of business of mutual benefit, I
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  Speaker 1: was considerably puzzled. A few days later, at nine in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, an hour of his own choosing, he came
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  Speaker 1: to my rooms in New York City. except that he
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  Speaker 1: had grown a beard, he was as I remembered him,
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  Speaker 1: thin and tall, but with no chest and stooping shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: He wore eyeglasses, and as of old, through these he
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  Speaker 1: regarded you disapprovingly and wearily, as though he suspected you
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  Speaker 1: might try to borrow money, or even joke with him.
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  Speaker 1: As with Edgar I had never felt any temptation to
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  Speaker 1: do either, this was irritating. But from force of former habit,
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  Speaker 1: we grated each other by our first names, and he
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  Speaker 1: suspiciously accepted a cigar. Then, after fixing me both with
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  Speaker 1: his eyes and with his eyeglasses, and swearing me to secrecy,
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  Speaker 1: he began abruptly— Our mills, he said, are in New Bedford,
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  Speaker 1: and I own several small cottages there and in Fairhaven.
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  Speaker 1: I rent them out at a moderate rate. The other
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  Speaker 1: day one of my tenants, a Portuguese sailor, was taken
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  Speaker 1: suddenly ill and sent for me. He had made many
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  Speaker 1: voyages in and out of Bedford to the South Seas,
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  Speaker 1: whaling— and he told me on his last voyage he
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  Speaker 1: had touched at his former home at Tenerife. There his
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  Speaker 1: grandfather had given him a document that had been left
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  Speaker 1: him by his father. His grandfather said it contained an
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  Speaker 1: important secret, but one that was of value only in America,
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  Speaker 1: and when he returned to that continent he must be
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  Speaker 1: very careful to whom he showed it. He told me
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  Speaker 1: it was written in a kind of English he could
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  Speaker 1: not understand, and that he had been afraid to let
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  Speaker 1: anyone see it. He wanted me to accept the document
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  Speaker 1: and payment of the rent he owed me, with the
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  Speaker 1: understanding that I was not to look at it, and
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  Speaker 1: that if he got well I was to give it back.
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  Speaker 1: If he pulled through, he was to pay me in
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  Speaker 1: some other way, but if he died, I was to
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  Speaker 1: keep the document. About a month ago he died, and
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  Speaker 1: I examined the paper. It purports to tell where there
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  Speaker 1: is buried a pirate's treasure, and, added Edgar, gazing at
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  Speaker 1: me severely and as though he challenged me to contradict him,
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  Speaker 1: I intend to dig for it. Had he told me
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  Speaker 1: he contemplated crossing the Rocky Mountains in a baby ride
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  Speaker 1: or leading a cotillon, I could not have been more astonished.
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  Speaker 1: I am afraid I laughed aloud.' Hugh!' I exclaimed.' Search
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  Speaker 1: for buried treasure!' My tone visibly annoyed him. Even the
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  Speaker 1: eyeglasses radiated disapproval.' I see nothing amusing in the idea,'
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  Speaker 1: Edgar protested coldly.' It is a plain business proposition. I
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  Speaker 1: find the outlay will be small, and if I am successful,
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  Speaker 1: the returns should be large.' at a rough estimate about
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  Speaker 1: one million dollars. Even today, no true American, at the
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  Speaker 1: thought of one million dollars, can remain covert. His letter
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  Speaker 1: to me had said, for our mutual benefit. I became
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  Speaker 1: respectful and polite, I might even say abject. After all,
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  Speaker 1: the ties that bind us in those dear old college
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  Speaker 1: days are not likely to be disregarded. If I can
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  Speaker 1: be of any service to you, Edgar, old man, I
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  Speaker 1: assured him heartily, if I can help you find it,
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  Speaker 1: you know I shall be only too happy. With regret
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  Speaker 1: I observed that my generous offer did not seem to
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  Speaker 1: deeply move him. I came to write you in this matter,
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  Speaker 1: he continued stiffly, because you seemed to be the sort
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  Speaker 1: of person who would be interested in a search for
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  Speaker 1: buried treasure. I am, I exclaimed, always have been. Have you,
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  Speaker 1: he demanded searchingly, any practical experience? I tried to appear
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  Speaker 1: at ease, but I knew then just how the man
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  Speaker 1: who applies to look after your furnace feels, when you
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  Speaker 1: ask him if he can also run a sixty-horse power dynamo.
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  Speaker 1: I have never actually found any buried treasure, I admitted,
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  Speaker 1: but I know where lots of it is, and I
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  Speaker 1: know just how to go after it. I endeavoured to
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  Speaker 1: dazzle him with expert knowledge. Of course, I went on airily,
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  Speaker 1: I am familiar with all the expeditions that have tried
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  Speaker 1: for the one on Cocos Island, and I know all
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  Speaker 1: about the Peruvian treasure on Trinidad, and the lost treasures
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  Speaker 1: of Jalisco near Guadalajara, and the sunken galleon on the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Cayman, and when I was on the Isle of
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  Speaker 1: Pines I had several very tempting offers to search there,
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  Speaker 1: and the late Captain Boynton invited me—' But,' interrupted Edgar
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  Speaker 1: in a tone that would tolerate no trifling,' you yourself
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  Speaker 1: have never financed or organized an expedition with the object
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  Speaker 1: in view of—'' Oh, that part's easy,' I assured him.'
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  Speaker 1: The fitting-out part you can safely leave to me.' I
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  Speaker 1: assumed a confidence that I hoped he might believe was real.
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  Speaker 1: There's always a tramp steamer in the eerie basin, I said,
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  Speaker 1: that one can charter for any kind of adventure, and
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  Speaker 1: I have the addresses of enough soldiers of fortune, filibusters
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  Speaker 1: and professional revolutionists to man a battleship, and fine fellows
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  Speaker 1: in a tight corner, and I'll promise you they'll follow
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  Speaker 1: us to hell and back. That, exclaimed Edgar, is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what I feared. I beg your pardon, I exclaimed. That's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I don't want, said Edgar sternly. I don't
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  Speaker 1: intend to go into any tight corners. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go to hell. I saw that in my enthusiasm
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  Speaker 1: I had perhaps alarmed him. I continued more temperately. Any
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  Speaker 1: expedition after treasure, I pointed out, is never without risk.
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  Speaker 1: You must have discipline and you must have picked men.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose there's a mutiny. Suppose they'll try to rob us
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  Speaker 1: of the treasure on our way home. We must have
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  Speaker 1: men we can rely on and men who know how
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  Speaker 1: to pump a Winchester. I can get you both. And
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  Speaker 1: Bannerman will furnish me with anything from a pair of
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  Speaker 1: leggings to a quick-firing gun, and on Clark Street they'll
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  Speaker 1: quote me a special rate on ship stores, hydraulic pumps,
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  Speaker 1: diver's helmets. Edgar's eyeglasses became frosted with cold, condemnatory scorn.
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  Speaker 1: He shook his head disgustedly. I was afraid of this,
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  Speaker 1: he murmured. I endeavoured to reassure him. A little danger,
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  Speaker 1: I laughed, only adds to the fun. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to understand, exclaimed Edgar indignantly. There isn't going to be
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  Speaker 1: any danger. There isn't going to be any fun. This
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  Speaker 1: is a plain business proposition. I asked you those questions
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  Speaker 1: just to test you, and you approached the matter exactly
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  Speaker 1: as I feared you would. I was prepared for it.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he explained shamefacedly, I've read several of your
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  Speaker 1: little stories, and I find they run to adventure and
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  Speaker 1: blood and thunder. They are not of the analytical school
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  Speaker 1: of fiction. Judging from them, he added accusingly, you have
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  Speaker 1: a tendency to the romantic. He spoke reluctantly as though
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  Speaker 1: saying I had a tendency to epileptic fits or the
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  Speaker 1: morphine habit. I am afraid, I was forced to admit,
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  Speaker 1: that to me pirates and buried treasure always suggest adventure.
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  Speaker 1: and your criticism of my writings is well observed, others
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  Speaker 1: have discovered the same fatal weakness. We can at all,
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  Speaker 1: I pointed out, manufacture unshrinkable flannels. At this compliment to
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  Speaker 1: his more fortunate condition, Edgar seemed to soften. I grant you,
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  Speaker 1: he said, that the subject has almost invariably been approached
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  Speaker 1: from the point of view you take. and what, he
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  Speaker 1: demanded triumphantly, has been the result, failure, or at least,
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  Speaker 1: before success was attained, a most unnecessary and regrettable loss
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  Speaker 1: of blood and life. Now, on my expedition, I do
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  Speaker 1: not intend that any blood shall be shed, or that
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  Speaker 1: anybody shall lose his life. I have not entered into
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  Speaker 1: this matter hastily, I have taken out information, and mean
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  Speaker 1: to benefit by other people's mistakes. When I decided to
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  Speaker 1: go on with this, he explained, I read all the
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  Speaker 1: books that bear on searches for buried treasure, and I
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  Speaker 1: found that in each case the same mistakes were made,
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  Speaker 1: and that then, in order to remedy the mistakes, it
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  Speaker 1: was invariably necessary to kill somebody. Now, by not making
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  Speaker 1: those mistakes... It will not be necessary for me to
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  Speaker 1: kill anyone, and nobody is going to have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to kill me. You propose that we fit out a
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  Speaker 1: schooner and sign on a crow. What will happen? A
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  Speaker 1: man with a sabre cut across his forehead, or with
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  Speaker 1: a black patch over one eye, will inevitably be one
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  Speaker 1: of that crow, and as soon as we sail, he
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  Speaker 1: will at once begin to plot against us. A cabin boy,
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  Speaker 1: who the conspirators think is asleep in his bunk, will
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  Speaker 1: overhear their plot and will run to the quarterdeck to
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  Speaker 1: give warning, but a pistol shot rings out and the
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  Speaker 1: cabin boy falls at the foot of the companion ladder.
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  Speaker 1: The cabin boy is always the first one to go.
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  Speaker 1: After that, the mutineers kill the first mate and lock
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  Speaker 1: us in our cabin and take over the ship. They
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  Speaker 1: will then broach a cask of rum and all through
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  Speaker 1: the night we will listen to their drunken howlings and
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  Speaker 1: from the cabin airport watch the body of the first
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  Speaker 1: mate rolling in the lee scuppers. But you forget, I
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  Speaker 1: protested eagerly, there is always one faithful member of the
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  Speaker 1: crew who... Edgar interrupted me impatiently. I have not overlooked him,
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  Speaker 1: he said. He is a Jamaican negro of gigantic proportions,
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  Speaker 1: or the ship's cook, but he always gets his too,
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  Speaker 1: and he gets it good. They throw him to the sharks.
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  Speaker 1: Then we all camp out on a desert island inhabited
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  Speaker 1: only by goats, and we build a stockade, and the
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  Speaker 1: mutineers come to trade with us under a white flag.
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  Speaker 1: and we, trusting entirely to their honour, are fools enough
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  Speaker 1: to go out and talk with them, at which they
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  Speaker 1: shoot us up and withdraw laughing scornfully. Edgar fixed his
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  Speaker 1: eyeglasses upon me accusingly. Am I right, or am I wrong?
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  Speaker 1: he demanded. I was unable to answer. The only man,
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  Speaker 1: continued Edgar warmly, ever showed the slightest intelligence in the matter,
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  Speaker 1: was the fellow in the gold bug. He kept his
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  Speaker 1: mouth shut. He never let anyone know that he was
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  Speaker 1: after buried treasure until he found it. That's me. Now
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  Speaker 1: I know exactly where this treasure is, and... I suppose, involuntarily,
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  Speaker 1: I must have given a start of interest. for Edgar
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  Speaker 1: paused and shook his head slyly and cunningly.' And if
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  Speaker 1: you think I have the map on my person now,'
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  Speaker 1: he declared in triumph,' you' ll have to guess again.'' Really?'
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  Speaker 1: I protested.' I had no intention.'' Not you, perhaps,' said
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  Speaker 1: Edgar grudgingly.' But your Japanese valet conceals himself behind those curtains,
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  Speaker 1: follows me home and at night.' I haven't got a valet,
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  Speaker 1: I objected. Edgar merely smiled with the most aggravating self-sufficiency.
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  Speaker 1: It makes no difference, he declared. No one will ever
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  Speaker 1: find that map, or see that map, or know where
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  Speaker 1: that treasure is until I point to the spot. Your
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  Speaker 1: caution is admirable, I said. But what, I jeered. makes
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  Speaker 1: you think you can point to the spot because your
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  Speaker 1: map says something like, through the sunken valley to which
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  Speaker 1: is cauldron, four points north by northeast to gallows hill,
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  Speaker 1: where the shadow falls at sunrise, fifty fathoms west, fifty
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  Speaker 1: paces north as the crow flies, to the seven wells.
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  Speaker 1: How the deuce, I demanded, is anyone going to point
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  Speaker 1: to that spot? It isn't that kind of map, shouted
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  Speaker 1: Edgar triumphantly. If it had been, I wouldn't have gone
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  Speaker 1: on with it. It's a map anyone can read except
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  Speaker 1: a half-cased Portuguese sailor. It's as plain as a laundry bill.
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  Speaker 1: It says, he paused apprehensively and then continued with caution,
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  Speaker 1: it says at such and such a place there is something...
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  Speaker 1: So many somethings from that something are three what-you-may-call-hems, and
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  Speaker 1: in the centre of these three what-you-may-call-hems is buried the treasure.
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  Speaker 1: It's as plain as that. Even with the few details
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  Speaker 1: you have let escape you, I said, I could find
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  Speaker 1: that spot in my sleep. I don't think you could,
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  Speaker 1: said Edgar uncomfortably. but I could see that he had
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  Speaker 1: mentally warned himself to be less communicative. And, he went on,
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  Speaker 1: I am willing to lead you to it if you
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  Speaker 1: subscribe to certain conditions. Edgar's insulting caution had ruffled my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think you can trust me? I asked haughtily.
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  Speaker 1: And then, remembering my share of the million dollars, I
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  Speaker 1: added in haste, I accept the conditions. Of course, as
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  Speaker 1: you say, one has got to take some risk, Edgar continued,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel sure, he said, regarding me doubtfully, you
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  Speaker 1: would not stoop to open robbery. I thanked him. Well,
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  Speaker 1: until one is tempted, said Edgar, one never knows what
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  Speaker 1: he might do, and I've simply got to have one
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  Speaker 1: other man and I picked on you because I thought
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  Speaker 1: you could write about it. I see, I said. I
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  Speaker 1: am to act as the historian of the expedition. That
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  Speaker 1: will be arranged later, said Edgar. What I chiefly want
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  Speaker 1: you for is to dig. Can you dig? he asked eagerly.
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  Speaker 1: I told him I could, but that I would rather
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  Speaker 1: do almost anything else. I must have one other man,
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  Speaker 1: repeated Edgar, a man who is strong enough to dig
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  Speaker 1: and strong enough to resist the temptation to murder me.
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  Speaker 1: The retort was so easy that I let it pass. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: on Edgar it would have been wasted. I think you
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  Speaker 1: will do. he said with reluctance, and now the conditions.
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  Speaker 1: I smiled agreeably. You are already sworn to secrecy, said Edgar,
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  Speaker 1: and now you agree in every detail to obey me
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  Speaker 1: implicitly and to accompany me to a certain place? where
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  Speaker 1: you will dig. If I find the treasure, you agree
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  Speaker 1: to help me guard it and convey it to wherever
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  Speaker 1: I decide it is safe to leave it. Your responsibility
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  Speaker 1: is then at an end. One year after the treasure
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  Speaker 1: is discovered, you will be free to write the account
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  Speaker 1: of the expedition. For what you write, some magazine may
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  Speaker 1: pay you. What it pays you will be your share
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  Speaker 1: of the treasure. Of my part of the million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: which I had hastily calculated could not be less than one-fifth,
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  Speaker 1: I had already spent over one hundred thousand dollars and
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  Speaker 1: was living far beyond my means. I had bought a
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  Speaker 1: farm with a waterfront on the Sound, a motorboat, and,
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  Speaker 1: as I was not sure which make I preferred, three automobiles.
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  Speaker 1: I had at my own expense produced a play of
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  Speaker 1: mine that no manager had appreciated, and its name in
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  Speaker 1: electric lights was already blinding Broadway. I had purchased a
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  Speaker 1: Hollander Express rifle, a real amber cigarette holder, a private
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  Speaker 1: secretary who could play both ragtime and tennis, and a
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  Speaker 1: fur coat. So Edgar's generous offer left me naked. When
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  Speaker 1: I had again accustomed myself to the narrow confines of
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  Speaker 1: my flat and the jolt of the surface cars, I
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  Speaker 1: asked humbly, Is that all I get? Why should you
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  Speaker 1: expect any more? demanded Edgar. It isn't your treasure. You
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't expect me to make you a present of an
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  Speaker 1: interest in my mills. Why should you get a share
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  Speaker 1: of my treasure? He gazed at me reproachfully. I thought
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  Speaker 1: you'd be pleased, he said. It must be hard to
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  Speaker 1: think of things to write about, and I'm giving you
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  Speaker 1: a subject for nothing. I thought, he remonstrated, you'd jump
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  Speaker 1: at the chance. It isn't every day a man can
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  Speaker 1: dig for buried treasure. That's all right, I said. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that quite as well as you do, but
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  Speaker 1: my time has a certain small value- and I can't
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  Speaker 1: leave my work just for excitement. We may be weeks, months.
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  Speaker 1: How long do you think we... Behind his eyeglasses, Edgar
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  Speaker 1: winked reprovingly. That is a leading question, he said. I
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  Speaker 1: will pay you all your legitimate expenses, transportation, food, lodging.
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  Speaker 1: It won't cost you a cent, and you'll write the story,
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  Speaker 1: with my name left out, he added hastily. It would
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  Speaker 1: hurt my standing in the trade, he explained, and get
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  Speaker 1: paid for it. I saw a sea voyage at Edgar's expense.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I saw palm leaves, coral reefs. I felt my muscles
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  Speaker 1: aching and the sweat run from my neck and shoulders
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  Speaker 1: as I drove my pick into the chest of gold.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go with you, I said. We shook hands on it.
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  Speaker 1: When do we start? I asked. Now, said Edgar. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he wished to test me. He had touched upon
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  Speaker 1: one of my pet vanities. You can't do that with me,
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  Speaker 1: I said. My bags are packed and ready for any
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  Speaker 1: place in the wide world, except the cold places. I
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  Speaker 1: can start this minute. Where is it? The Gold Coast?
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  Speaker 1: The Ivory Coast? The Spanish Main? Edgar frowned inscrutably.' Have
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  Speaker 1: you an empty suitcase?' he asked.' Why empty?' I demanded.'
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  Speaker 1: To carry the treasure,' said Edgar.' I left mine in
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  Speaker 1: the hall. We will need two.'' And your trunks?' I said.'
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: There aren't going to be any trunks,' said Edgar.' From
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: his pocket he had taken a folder of the New
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Jersey Central Railroad. If we hurry, he exclaimed, we can
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: catch the 10.30 express and return to New York in
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: time for dinner. And what about the treasure? I roared.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: We'll bring it with us, said Edgar. I asked for information.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I demanded confidences. Edgar refused both. I insisted that I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: might be allowed at least to carry my automatic pistol.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Suppose someone tries to take the treasure from us, I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: pointed out. No one, said Edgar severely, would be such
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: an ass as to imagine we are carrying buried treasure
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: in a suitcase. He will think it contains pyjamas. For
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: local colour, then, I begged. I want to say in
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: my story that I went heavily armed.'' Say it then,'
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: snapped Edgar.' But you can't do it. Not with me
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you can't. How do I know you mightn't?' He shook
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: his head wearily. End of Part 1 Part 2 of
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: My Buried Treasure by Richard Harding Davies It was a
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: day in early October, the haze of Indian summer was
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: in the air, and as we crossed the North River
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: by the 23rd Street Ferry, the sun flashed upon the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: white clouds overhead and the tumbling waters below. On each
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: side of us great vessels with the blue peter at
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the fore lay at the wharfs ready to cast off,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: or were already nosing their way down the channel towards
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: strange and beautiful ports. Lamport and Holt were rolling down
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: to Rio, the Royal Mail's Magdalena, no longer white and gold,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: was off to Kingston, where once seven pirates swung in chains.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: The Clyde was on her way to Haiti, where the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Buccaneers came from, the Morrow Castle was bound for Havana,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: which Morgan, king of all the pirates, had once made
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: his own, and the Red D was steaming to Porto Cabello,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: where Sir Francis Drake, as big a Buccaneer as any
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of them, lies entombed in her harbour, and I was
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: setting forth on a buried treasure expedition on a snub-nosed, flat-bellied,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: fresh-water ferry-boat bound for New Jersey. No one will ever
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: know my sense of humiliation, and when the Italian boy
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: insulted my immaculate tan shoes by pointing at them and saying, Shine?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I could have slain him. Fancy digging for buried treasure
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: in freshly varnished boots. But Edgar did not mind. To
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: him there was nothing lacking. It was just as it
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: should be. He was deeply engrossed in calculating how many
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: offices were for rent in the Singer building. When we
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: reached the other side— He refused to answer any of
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: my eager questions. He would not let me know even
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: for what place on the line he had purchased our tickets,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and as a hint that I should not disturb him,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: he stuffed into my hands the latest magazines. At least
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: tell me this, I demanded. Have you ever been to
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: this place before to-day?'' Once,' said Edgar shortly. last week.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: That's when I found out I would need someone with
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: me who could dig.'' How do you know it's the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: right place?' I whispered.' The summer season was over, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of the chair-car we were the only occupants, but before
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: he answered—' Edgar looked cautiously around him and out of
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: the window—' we had just passed Red Bank.' Because the map
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: told me, he answered. Suppose, he continued fretfully, you had
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a map of New York City with the streets marked
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: on it plainly. Suppose the map said that if you
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: walked to where Broadway and Fifth Avenue meet, you would
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: find the Flatiron Building. Do you think you could find it?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Was it as easy as that? I gasped. It was
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: as easy as that, said Edgar. I sank back into
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: my chair and let the magazine... slide to the floor.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: What fiction story was there in any one of them
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: so enthralling as the actual possibilities that lay before me?
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: In two hours I might be bending over a pot
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: of gold— a sea-chest stuffed with pearls and rubies. I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: began to recall all the stories I had heard as
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a boy of treasure buried along the coast by Kid
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: on his return voyage from the Indies. Where along the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Jersey sea-line were their safe harbours? The train on which
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: we were racing south had its rail hid at Barnegat Bay,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and between Barnegat and Red Bank there now was but
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: one other inlet that of the manasquan river it might
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: be barnegat it might be manasquan it could not be
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: a great distance from either towards the ocean down a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: broad sandy road The season had passed and the windows
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: of the cottages and bungalows on either side of the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: road were barricaded with planks. On the verandas hammocks abandoned
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: to the wind hung in tatters, on the back porches
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the doors of empty refrigerators swung open on one hinge,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: and on every side above the fields of gorgeous goldenrod
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: rose signs hidding, for rent when we had progressed in
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: silence for a mile the sandy avenue lost itself in
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the deeper sand of the beach and the horse of
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: his own will came to a halt on one side
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: we were surrounded by locked and deserted bathing-houses on the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: other by empty pavilions shuttered and barred against the winter
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: but still inviting one to try our salt-water taffy, or
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: to keep cool with an ice-cream soda. Rupert turned and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: looked inquiringly at Edgar. To the north the beach stretched
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: in an unbroken line to Manasquan Inlet, to the south,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: three miles away, we could see floating on the horizon,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: like a mirage, the hotels and summer cottages of Bay Head.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Drive toward the inlet, directed Edgar. This gentleman and I
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: will walk. Relieved of our weight, the horse stumbled bravely
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: into the trackless sand, while below on the damper and
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: firmer shingle we walked by the edge of the water.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: The tide was coming in and the spent waves, spreading
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: before them an advance guard of tiny shells and pebbles,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: threatened our boots and at the same time in soothing
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: lazy whispers warned us of their attack these lisping murmurs
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and the crash and roar of each incoming wave as
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: it broke were the only sounds and on the beach
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: we were the only human figures at last the scene
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: began to bear some resemblance to one set for an
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: adventure The rolling ocean, a coast steamer dragging a great
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: column of black smoke, and cast high upon the beach
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the wreck of a schooner, her masts tilting drunkenly, gave
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: colour to our purpose. It became filled with greater promise
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: of drama, more picturesque. I began to thrill with excitement.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I regarded Edgar appealingly. in eager supplication, at last he
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: broke the silence that was torturing me. We will now
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: walk higher up, he commanded. If we get our feet wet,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: we may take cold. My spirit was too far broken
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to make a reply, but to my relief I saw
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: that in leaving the beach Edgar had some second purpose.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: With each heavy step, he was drawing toward two high
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: banks of sand in a hollow behind which, protected by
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the banks, were three stunted, wind-driven pines. His words came
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: back to me. So many what-you-may-call-ems. Were these pines the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: three somethings from something, the what-you-may-call-ems? The thought chilled me
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: to the spine. I gazed at them fascinated. I felt
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: like falling on my knees in the sand and tearing
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: their secret from them with my bare hands. I was
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: strong enough to dig them up by the roots, strong
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: enough to dig the Panama Canal. I glanced tremulously at Edgar.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: His eyes were wide open, and eloquent with dismay, his
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: lower jaw had fallen. He turned and looked at me
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: for the first time with consideration. Apology and remorse were
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: written in every line of his countenance.' I' m sorry,' he stammered.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I had a cruel premonition. I exclaimed with distress,' You
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: have lost the map!' I hissed.' No, no,' protested Edgar.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: but I entirely forgot to bring any lunch. With violent
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: mutterings I tore off my upper and outer garments and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: tossed them into the hack. Where do I begin? I asked.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Edgar pointed to a spot inside the triangle formed by
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the three trays and equally distant from each. Put that
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: horse behind the bank, I commanded. where no one can
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: see him, and both you and Rupert keep off the skyline.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: From the north and south we were now all three
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: hidden by the two high banks of sand, to the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: east lay the beach and the Atlantic Ocean, and to
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the west stretches of marshes that a mile away met
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: a wood of pine trees and the railroad roundhouse. I
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: began to dig. I knew that weary hours lay before me,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and I attacked the sand leisurely and with deliberation. It
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: was at first no great effort, but as the hole
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: grew in depth, and the roots of the trees were exposed,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the work was sufficient for several men. Still, as Edgar
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: had said, it is not every day that one can
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: dig for treasure, and in thinking of what was to come,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I forgot my hands that quickly blistered, and my breaking back.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: After an hour I insisted that Edgar should take a turn,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: but he made such a poor headway that my patience
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: could not contain me, and I told him I was
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: sufficiently rested and would continue. With alacrity he scrambled out
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: of the hall, and taking a cigar from my case,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: seated himself comfortably in the hack. I took my comfort
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: in anticipating the thrill that would be mine when the
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: spade would ring on the iron-bound chest, when, with a
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: blow of the axe, I would expose to view the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: hidden jewels, the pieces of eight, coated with verdigris, the
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: string of pearls, the chains of yellow gold. Edgar had
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: said a million dollars, that must mean there would be diamonds.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: many diamonds. I would hold them in my hands, watch them,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: at the sudden sunshine blink their eyes and burst into tiny,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: burning fires. In imagination I would replace them in the
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: setting from which, years before, they had been stolen. I
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: would try to guess whence they came from a jewelled
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: chalice in some dim cathedral, from the breast of a
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: great lady, from the hilt of an admiral's sword. After
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: an hour I lifted my aching shoulders, and wiping the
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: sweat from my eyes, looked over the edge of the hall. Rupert,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: with his back to the sand-hill, was asleep. Edgar, with
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: one hand, was waving away the mosquitoes, and in the
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: other was holding one of the magazines he had bought
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: on the way down. I could even see the page
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: upon which his eyes were riveted. It was an advertisement
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: for breakfast food. In my indignation the spade slipped through
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: my cramped and perspiring fingers, and as it struck the
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: bottom of the pit, something, a band of iron, a
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: steel lock, an iron ring, gave forth a muffled sound.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: My heart sank. stopped beating as suddenly as though Mr.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Corbett had hit it with his closed fist. My blood
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: turned to melted ice. I drove the spade down as
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: fiercely as though it was a dagger. It sank into
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: a rotten wood. I had made no sound. for I
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: could hardly breathe, but the slight noise of the blow
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: had reached Edgar. I heard the springs of the hack
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: creak as he vaulted from it, and the next moment
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: he was towering above me, peering down into the pit.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: His eyes were wide with excitement, greed, and fear. In
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: his hands he clutched the two suitcases— Like a lion
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: defending his cubs, he glared at me. Get out, he shouted.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Like hell, I said. Get out, he roared. I'll do
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the rest. That's mine, not yours. Get out. With a
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: swift kick I brushed away the sand. I found I
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: was standing on a squat wooden box, bound with bands
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: of rusty iron. I had only to stoop to touch it.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: It was so rotten that I could have torn it
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: apart with my bare hands. Edgar was dancing on the
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: edge of the pit, incidentally kicking sand into my mouth
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: and nostrils. You promised me, he roared. You promised to
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: obey me.' You ass!' I shouted.' Haven' t I done all
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: the work? Don't I get—'' You get out!' roared Edgar. Slowly, disgustedly,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: with what dignity one can display in crawling out of
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: a sand-pit, I scrambled to the top.' Go over there,'
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: commanded Edgar, pointing,' and sit down.' In furious silence I
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: seated myself beside Rupert. He was still slumbering and snoring happily.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: From where I sat I could see nothing of what
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: was going forward in the pit, save once when the
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: head of Edgar, his eyes aflame and his hair and
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: eyeglasses sprinkled with sand, appeared above it, Apparently he was
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: fearful lest I had moved from the spot where he
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: had placed me. I had not, but had he known
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: my inmost feelings, he would have taken the axe into
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the pit with him. I must have said so for
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: half an hour. In the sky above me a fish-hawk
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: drifted lazily. From the beach sounded the steady beat of
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: the waves- and from the town across the marshes came
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the puffing of a locomotive and the clanging bells of
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the freight trains. The breeze from the sea cooled the
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: sweat on my aching body, but it could not cool
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the rage in my heart. If I had the courage
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: of my feelings, I would have cracked Edgar overhead with
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: the spade, buried him in the pit, bribed Rupert, and
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: for ever after lived happily on my ill-gotten gains. That
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: was how Kidd or Morgan or Blackbeard would have acted.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I cursed the effete civilization which had taught me to
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: want many pleasures, but had left me with a conscience
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: that would not let me take human life to obtain them,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: not even Edgar's life. In half an hour a suitcase
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: was lifted into view and dropped on the edge of
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the pit. It was followed by the other, and then
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: by Edgar. Without asking me to help him, because he
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: probably knew I would not, he shoveled the sand into
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: the hole and then placed the suitcases into the carriage.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: With increasing anger I observed that the contents of each
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: were so heavy that to lift it he used both hands.'
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: There is no use your asking any questions,' he announced,'
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: because I won't answer them.' I gave him minute directions
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: as to where he could go, but instead we drove
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: in black silence to the station. There Edgar rewarded Rupert
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: with a dime, and while we waited for the train
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: to New York, placed the two suitcases against the wall
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: of the ticket office and sat upon them. When the
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: train arrived he warned me in a hoarse whisper that
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I had promised to help him guard the treasure and
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: gave me one of the suitcases. It weighed a tonne.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Just to spite Edgar, I had a plan to kick
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: it open, so that everyone on the platform might scramble
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: for the contents. But again, my infernal New England conscience
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: restrained me. Edgar had secured the drawing-room in the parlour car,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and when we were safely inside and the door bolted,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: my curiosity became stronger than my pride.' Edgar,' I said,'
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: your ingratitude is contemptible. Your suspicions are ridiculous, but under
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: these most unusual conditions, I don't blame you. But you
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: are quite safe now. The door is fastened,' I pointed
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: out ingratiatingly.' It and this train doesn't stop for another
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: forty minutes. I think this would be an excellent time
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: to look at the treasure.' i don't said edgar i
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: sank back into my chair with intense enjoyment i imagined
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: the train in which we were seated hurling itself into
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: another train and everybody including edgar or rather especially edgar
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: being instantly but painlessly killed By such an act of
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: all-wise providence, I would at once become heir to one
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: million dollars. It was a beautiful, satisfying dream. Even my
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: conscience accepted it with a smug smile. It was so
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: vivid a dream that I sat guiltily expectant, waiting for
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: the crash to come, for the shrieks and screams, for
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: the rush of escaping steam and breaking window panes. but
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: it was far too good to be true without a
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: jar the train carried us and its precious burden into
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: safety to the jersey city terminal and each with half
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: a million dollars in his hand hurried to the ferry
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: assailed by porters newsboys hackmen To them we were a
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: couple of commuters, saving a dime by carrying our own handbags.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: It was now six o'clock, and I pointed out to
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Edgar that at that hour the only vaults open were
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: those of the night and day bank, and to that institution,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: in a taxi-cab, we at once made our way. I
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: paid the chauffeur, and two minutes later, with a gasp
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: of relief and rejoicing, I dropped the suitcase I had
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: carried on a table in the steel-walled fastnesses of the vaults.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Gathered excitedly around us were the officials of the bank,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: summoned hastily from above, and watchmen in plain clothes and
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: watchmen in uniforms of grey. Great bars as thick as
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: my leg protected us. Walls of chilled steel rising from
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: solid rock stood between our treasure and the outer world.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Until then, I had not known how tremendous the nervous
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: strain had been, but now it came home to me.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I mopped my perspiration from my forehead. I drew a
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: deep breath.' Edgar!' I exclaimed happily.' I congratulate you!' I
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: found Edgar extending towards me a two-dollar bill.' You gave
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: the chauffeur two dollars,' he said.' The fare was really
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: only one dollar eighty, so you owe me twenty cents.'
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Mechanically I laid two dimes upon the table.' All the
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: other expenses,' continued Edgar.' which I agreed to pay, I
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: have paid. He made a peremptory gesture. I won't detain
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: you any longer, he said. Good night. Good night, I cried.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Don't I see the treasure? Against the walls of chilled
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: steel my voice rose like that of a tortured soul.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Don't I touch it? I yelled. don't i even get
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: a squint even the watchman looked sorry for me you
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: do not said edgar calmly you have fulfilled your part
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: of the agreement. I have fulfilled mine. A year from
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: now you can write the story. As I moved in
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: a dazed state towards the steel door, his voice halted me.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: And you can say in your story? called Edgar, that
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: there is only one way to get a buried treasure,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: that is to go and get it.