The Quest of the 'Golden Hope': A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure

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orner of the room, while its owner began to force his

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ded jerk, but still

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n the table, the hammer desce

a short, bull-necked man, with clean-shaven, red complexioned features, closely cropp

appointment, the stranger backed his way

erk the amount of the purchase money, my father took possession of the painting and the naut

t a walking pace, the youth panting at ou

d in so doing I caught sight of a man stealing cautiously along in the shadow of the trees

is steed, he trotted back to the edge of the clump of pines that stand betwixt the

and the far side of the hillock a

s burden. Though I felt certain on the point, I refrained from insisting that I was right, and without further happening

no time to his purchase until the evening, though I was burning with impatien

sguised delight, when he saw the painting. "Now, Cap

hillings, and 'tis a pity to spoil it for the sake of being overhasty

ere removed from the frame a musty piece of parchmen

my, pointing with his yellow finge

a representation of the mariner's compass. Three strange-looking vessels, with towering forecastles and poops, and a veritable network of rhumb-lines, covered all the portion of the chart that was supposed to represent the ocean. In the bottom left-hand corner,

enough for our purpose. Even Generals Penn and Venables, when they to

nks you said the position was known only to you? How comes it, t

there lieth the treasure. Now, what say you, Captain Hammond? Will you join with me in prosecuting a search? for freely in my gratitude will I share the gains with you. Yet 'tis but fair to give you full warning, though I heed it not. 'T

should the treasure be yet undiscovered, there arises the question of the cost of fitting out a ship. Were

in Jeremy, with a grim smile. "Yet, as I have said heretofore, I have hidden a certain sum. This, though 'tis my

should I have touched upon a tender spot. Now, I pray you, ex

I fear, to my father's displeasure, though he made no sign on 't), he proceeded to point out the characteristics of the island, the

ut, greatly to my disappointment, just as Captain Miles was about to e

ord, therefore bid us go

upon the scene, as the two bronzed-faced seamen bent eagerly over the musty parchment, the key