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My Buried Treasure
My Buried Treasure
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gret I observed that my generous offer did not seem to deeply move him.
"I came to you in this matter," he continued stiffly, "because you seemed to be the sort of person who would be interested in a search for buried treasure."
"I am," I exclaimed. "Always have been."
"Have you," he demanded searchingly, "any practical experience?"
I tried to appear at ease; but I knew then just how the man who applies to look after your furnace feels, when you ask him if he can also run a sixty horse-power dynamo.
"I have never actually FOUND any buried treasure," I admitted; "but I know where lots of it is, and I know just how to go after it." I endeavored to dazzle him with expert knowledge.
"Of course," I went on airily, "I am familiar with all the expeditions that have tried for the one on Cocos Island, and I know all about the Peruvian treasure on Trinidad, and the lost treasures of Jalisco near Guadalajara, and the sunken galleon on the Grand Cayman, and when I was on the Isle
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My Buried Treasure (Humor)
o A friend asks a friend to help him recover a buried treasure.
o There are some strange conditions attached to the bargain.
The Consul
o A career diplomat has been forgotten in an out-of-the-way diplomatic post.
o He may have lost his political standing but not his integrity.
Plot bullets
My Buried Treasure (Humor)
o A friend asks a friend to help him recover a buried treasure.
o There are some strange conditions attached to the bargain.
The Consul
o A career diplomat has been forgotten in an out-of-the-way diplomatic post.
o He may have lost his political standing but not his integrity.
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