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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
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  Speaker 1: habit we greeted each other by our first names, and
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  Speaker 1: he suspiciously accepted a cigar. Then, after fixing me both
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  Speaker 1: with his eyes and with his eyeglasses, and swearing me
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  Speaker 1: to secrecy, he began abruptly. our mills he said are
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  Speaker 1: in new bedford and i own several small cottages there
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  Speaker 1: and in fairhaven i rent them out at a moderate
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  Speaker 1: rate the other day one of my tenants a portuguese
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  Speaker 1: sailor was taken suddenly ill and sent for me He
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  Speaker 1: had made many voyages in and out of Bedford to
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  Speaker 1: the South Seas, whaling, and he told me on his
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  Speaker 1: last voyage he had touched at his former home at Tenerife.
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  Speaker 1: There his grandfather had given him a document that had
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  Speaker 1: been left him by his father. His grandfather said it
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  Speaker 1: contained an important secret, but one that was of value
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  Speaker 1: only in America, and when he returned to that continent
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  Speaker 1: He must be very careful to whom he showed it.
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  Speaker 1: He told me it was written in a kind of
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  Speaker 1: English he could not understand, and that he had been
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  Speaker 1: afraid to let anyone see it. He wanted me to
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  Speaker 1: accept the document and payment of the rent he owed me,
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  Speaker 1: with the understanding that I was not to look at it,
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  Speaker 1: and that if he got well I was to give
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  Speaker 1: it back. If he pulled through, he was to pay
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  Speaker 1: me in some other way, but if he died, I
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  Speaker 1: was to keep the document. About a month ago he died,
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  Speaker 1: and I examined the paper. It purports to tell where
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  Speaker 1: there is buried a pirate's treasure, and, added Edgar, gazing
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  Speaker 1: at me severely and as though he challenged me to
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  Speaker 1: contradict him, I intend to dig for it. Had he
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  Speaker 1: told me he contemplated crossing the Rocky Mountains in a
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  Speaker 1: baby ride or leading a cotillon, I could not have
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  Speaker 1: been more astonished. I am afraid I laughed aloud.' Hugh!'
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  Speaker 1: I exclaimed.' Search for buried treasure!' My tone visibly annoyed him.
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  Speaker 1: Even the eyeglasses radiated disapproval.' I see nothing amusing in
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  Speaker 1: the idea,' Edgar protested coldly.' It is a plain business proposition.
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  Speaker 1: I find the outlay will be small, and if I
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  Speaker 1: am successful—' the returns should be large, at a rough
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  Speaker 1: estimate about one million dollars. Even today, no true American,
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  Speaker 1: at the thought of one million dollars, can remain covert.
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  Speaker 1: His letter to me had said, for our mutual benefit.
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  Speaker 1: I became respectful and polite, I might even say abject.
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  Speaker 1: After all, the ties that bind us in those dear
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  Speaker 1: old college days are not lightly to be disregarded. If
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  Speaker 1: I can be of any service to you, Edgar, old man,
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  Speaker 1: I 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
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  Speaker 1: power dynamo i have never actually found any buried treasure
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  Speaker 1: i admitted but i know where lots of it is
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  Speaker 1: and i know just how to go after it I
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  Speaker 1: endeavoured to dazzle him with expert knowledge. Of course, I
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  Speaker 1: went on airily, I am familiar with all the expeditions
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  Speaker 1: that have tried for the one on Cocos Island, and
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  Speaker 1: I know all about the Peruvian treasure on Trinidad, and
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  Speaker 1: the lost treasures of Jalisco near Guadalajara, and the sunken
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  Speaker 1: galleon on the Grand Cayman, and when I was on
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  Speaker 1: the Isle of Pines I had several very tempting offices
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  Speaker 1: to search there, and the late Captain Boynton invited me—' But,'
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  Speaker 1: interrupted Edgar in a tone that would tolerate no trifling,'
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  Speaker 1: you yourself have never financed or organized an expedition with
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  Speaker 1: the object in view of—'' Oh, that part's easy,' I
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  Speaker 1: assured him. the fitting-out part you can safely leave to me.
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  Speaker 1: I assumed a confidence that I hoped he might believe
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  Speaker 1: was real. There's always a tramp steamer in the eerie basin,
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  Speaker 1: I said, that one can charter for any kind of adventure,
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  Speaker 1: and 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: banner men will furnish me with anything from a pair
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  Speaker 1: of leggings to a quick-firing gun and on clark street
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  Speaker 1: they'll quote me a special rate on ship stores hydraulic
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  Speaker 1: pumps divers 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 he 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 crew. 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 crew, 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 quarter-deck 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 SHIPS 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 BUILT A STOCKADE, AND THE
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  Speaker 1: MUTINEERS COME TO TRAIT WITH US UNDER A WHITE FLAG,
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  Speaker 1: AND WE, TRUSTING ENTIRELY TO THEIR HONOR, 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, whoever 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: his 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-caste 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
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  Speaker 1: a something. So many somethings from that something are three what-you-may-call-ems.
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  Speaker 1: and in the centre of these three what-you-may-call-hems is buried
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  Speaker 1: the treasure, it's as plain as that. Even with the
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  Speaker 1: few details you have let escape you, I said, I
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  Speaker 1: could find that spot in my sleep. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you could, said Edgar uncomfortably, but I could see that
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  Speaker 1: he had mentally warned himself to be less communicative, and,
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  Speaker 1: he went on, I am willing to lead you to
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  Speaker 1: it if you subscribe to certain conditions.' Edgar's insulting caution
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  Speaker 1: had ruffled my spirit.' Why do you think you can
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  Speaker 1: trust me?' I asked haughtily, and then, remembering my share
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  Speaker 1: of the million dollars, I added in haste,' I accept
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  Speaker 1: the conditions.'' Of course, as you say, one has got
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  Speaker 1: to take some risk.' Edgar continued. But I feel sure,
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  Speaker 1: he said, regarding me doubtfully, you would not stoop to
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  Speaker 1: open robbery. I thanked him. Well, until one is tempted,
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  Speaker 1: said Edgar, one never knows what he might do, and
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  Speaker 1: I've simply got to have one other man, and I
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  Speaker 1: picked on you because I thought you could write about it.
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  Speaker 1: I see, I said. I am to act as the
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  Speaker 1: historian of the expedition. That will be arranged later, said Edgar.
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  Speaker 1: What I chiefly want you for is to dig. Can
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  Speaker 1: you dig? he asked eagerly. I told him I could,
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  Speaker 1: but that I would rather do almost anything else. I
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  Speaker 1: must have one other man, repeated Edgar, a man who
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  Speaker 1: is strong enough to dig. and strong enough to resist
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  Speaker 1: the temptation to murder me. The retort was so easy
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  Speaker 1: that I let it pass. Besides, on Edgar it would
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  Speaker 1: have been wasted. I think you will do. he said
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  Speaker 1: with reluctance.' And now the conditions.' I smiled agreeably.' You
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  Speaker 1: are already sworn to secrecy,' said Edgar.' And now you
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  Speaker 1: agree in every detail to obey me implicitly' and to
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  Speaker 1: accompany me to a certain place?' where you will dig.
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  Speaker 1: If I find the treasure, you agree to help me
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  Speaker 1: guard it and convey it to wherever I decide it
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  Speaker 1: is safe to leave it. Your responsibility is then at
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  Speaker 1: an end. One year after the treasure is discovered, you
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  Speaker 1: will be free to write the account of the expedition.
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  Speaker 1: For what you write, some magazine may pay you. What
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  Speaker 1: it pays you will be your share of the treasure.
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  Speaker 1: Of my part of the million dollars, which I had
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  Speaker 1: hastily calculated could not be less than one-fifth, I had
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  Speaker 1: already spent over one hundred thousand dollars and was living
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  Speaker 1: far beyond my means. I had bought a farm with
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  Speaker 1: a waterfront on the Sound, a motorboat, and, as I
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  Speaker 1: was not sure which make I preferred, three automobiles. I
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  Speaker 1: had at my own expense produced a play of mine
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  Speaker 1: that no manager had appreciated, and its name in electric
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  Speaker 1: lights was already blinding Broadway. I had purchased a Hollander
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  Speaker 1: express rifle, a real amber cigarette holder, a private secretary
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  Speaker 1: who could play both ragtime and tennis, and a fur coat.
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  Speaker 1: So Edgar's generous offer left me naked.' When I had
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  Speaker 1: again accustomed myself to the narrow confines of my flat
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  Speaker 1: and the jolt of the surface cars, I asked humbly,'
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  Speaker 1: Is that all I get?'' Why should you expect any more?'
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: demanded Edgar.' It isn't your treasure. You wouldn't expect me
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  Speaker 1: to make you a present of an interest in my mills.
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  Speaker 1: Why should you get a share of my treasure?' He
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  Speaker 1: gazed at me reproachfully. I thought you'd be pleased, he said.
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  Speaker 1: It must be hard to think of things to write about,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm giving you a subject for nothing. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: he remonstrated, you'd jump at the chance. It isn't every
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  Speaker 1: day a man can dig for buried treasure. That's all right,
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  Speaker 1: I said. Perhaps I appreciate that quite as well as
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  Speaker 1: you do, but my time has a certain small value—
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  Speaker 1: and I can't leave my work just for excitement. We
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  Speaker 1: may be weeks, months. How long do you think we—'
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  Speaker 1: Behind his eyeglasses, Edgar winked reprovingly.' That is a leading question,'
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  Speaker 1: he said.' I will pay you all your legitimate expenses— transportation, food,
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  Speaker 1: lodging— 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.
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  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.
• 24:45
  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
• 25:17
  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
• 26:34
  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,
• 28:18
  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?
• 29:28
  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 broad,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: sandy road. The season had passed, and the windows of
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the cottages and bungalows on either side of the road
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: were barricaded with planks. On the verandas hammocks abandoned to
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the wind hung in tatters, on the back porches the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: doors of empty refrigerators swung open on one hinge, and
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: on every side above the fields of gorgeous goldenrod rose
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: signs heading, For Rent. When we had progressed in silence
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: for a mile, the sandy avenue lost itself in the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: deeper sand of the beach, and the horse of his
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: own will came to a halt. On one side we
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: were surrounded by locked and deserted bathing-houses, on the other
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: by empty pavilions, shuttered and barred against the winter, but
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: still inviting one to try our salt-water taffy, or to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: keep cool with an ice-cream soda. Rupert turned and looked
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: inquiringly at Edgar. To the north the beach stretched in
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: an unbroken line to Manasquan Inlet. To the south, three
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: miles away, we could see floating on the horizon, like
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: 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 adventure.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: The rolling ocean, a coast steamer dragging a great column
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: of black smoke, and cast high upon the beach the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: wreck of a schooner, her masts tilting drunkenly, gave colour
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to our purpose. It became filled with greater promise of drama,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: more picturesque. I began to thrill with excitement. I regarded
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Edgar appealingly, in eager supplication. At last he broke the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: silence that was torturing me. We will now walk higher up,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: he commanded. If we get our feet wet, we may
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: take cold. My spirit was too far broken to make
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: a reply, but to my relief I saw that in
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: leaving the beach Edgar had some second purpose. With each
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: heavy step, he was drawing toward two high banks of
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: sand in a hollow behind which, protected by the banks,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: were three stunted, wind-driven pines. His words came back to me.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: So many what-you-may-call-ems. Were these pines the three somethings from something,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the what-you-may-call-ems? The thought chilled me to the spine. I
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: gazed at them fascinated. I felt like falling on my
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: knees in the sand and tearing their secret from them
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: with my bare hands. I was strong enough to dig
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: them up by the roots, strong enough to dig the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Panama Canal. I glanced tremulously at Edgar. His eyes were
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: wide open, and eloquent with dismay, his lower jaw had fallen.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: He turned and looked at me for the first time
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: with consideration. Apology and remorse were written in every line
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: of his countenance.' I' m sorry,' he stammered. I had a
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: cruel premonition. I exclaimed with distress,' You have lost the map!'
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I hissed.' No, no,' protested Edgar. but I entirely forgot
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: to bring any lunch. With violent mutterings I tore off
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: my upper and outer garments and tossed them into the hack.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Where do I begin? I asked. Edgar pointed to a
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: spot inside the triangle formed by the three trays and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: equally distant from each. Put that horse behind the bank,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I commanded. where no one can see him, and both
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you and Rupert keep off the skyline. From the north
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and south we were now all three hidden by the
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: two high banks of sand, to the east lay the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: beach and the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west stretches
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: of marshes that a mile away met a wood of
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: pine trees and the railroad roundhouse. I began to dig.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I knew that weary hours lay before me, and I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: attacked the sand leisurely and with deliberation. It was at
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: first no great effort, but as the hole grew in depth,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and the roots of the trees were exposed, the work
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: was sufficient for several men. Still, as Edgar had said,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: it is not every day that one can dig for treasure,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and in thinking of what was to come, I forgot
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: my hands that quickly blistered, and my breaking back. After
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: 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,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: burning fires. In imagination I would replace them in the
• 38:21
  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
• 40:43
  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 sandpit, 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
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: of my feelings I would have cracked Edgar over head
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: with the spade, buried him in the pit, bribed Rupert,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: and forever 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
• 45:18
  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
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: the chauffeur two dollars, he said. The fare was really
• 48:25
  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
• 48:47
  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 steel,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: my voice rose like that of a tortured soul. Don't
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: I touch it? I yelled. Don't I even get a squint?
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Even the watchmen looked sorry for me. You do not,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: said Edgar calmly. You have fulfilled your part of the agreement.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I have fulfilled mine. A year from now you can
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: write the story. As I moved in a dazed state
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: towards the steel door, his voice halted me. And you
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: can say in your story? called Edgar, that there is
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: only one way to get a buried treasure, that is
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: to go and get it.