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Arabia seemed to have been connected, in that remote age, with Persia at the Strait of Ormus, so there was a direct overland route.... That put another notion into Tavor's head; these treasure caravans must have crossed the immense Sandy Desert of El-Khali.
"I put it all in; the accessibility of this desert from the coast on three sides, how the old caravan route parallels the thirty-third meridian and how Charlie struck it four hundred miles out into the desert in a hundred miles travel due south in longitude between 50 and 55 degrees; all the details of Tavor's hunt for the wreck of one of these treasure caravans.
"Old Nute's eyes squinted. "'How much money? he said. "'Well, I said, 'Tavor will turn his map over to you for ten thousand dollars... Death's crowding him. "Old Nute's fat fingers began to drum on his waistcoat. "'How do I know the gold's there and the map's straight? "'Did you ever know Tavor to lie? I said. "'No, he said, 'Tavor's not a liar; but I am a business man, Mr.
I'm not going to put you on to what Charlie knows, with any strings to it, or with any pointers that you can run down without us. I've told you all about Tavor's big hunt through the Shamo and the El-Khali for a purpose of my own and not for the purpose of enabling you to locate the thing that Charlie Tavor knows about. "Hardman's voice went down into a low note. 'What does he know? he said.
But the caravans crossing the El-Khali would carry this gold in bricks for the great west trade. Now a gold brick is indestructible; you can't think of anything that would last forever like a gold brick. Nothing would disturb it, water and sun are alike without effect on it.... "That was Tavor's notion, and he went right after it.
He put his fat hands together over his waistcoat and twiddled his thumbs. "'Well,; he said, 'what's in your mind about it? "We were now up to the trade and I stated the terms. "'It's like this, I said, 'Tavor's down and out. He's got only six months to live. Fifth Avenue piled full of gold won't do him any good if he's got to wait for it. What he wants is a little money quick!
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