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Updated: June 26, 2025
"How goes the treasure-hunting?" he queried lightly. "Any prospects in sight?" The Ancient Mariner nodded, and with returning breath, at first whispering, gasped out: "We're all cleared to sail on the first of the ebb at seven this morning. She's out in the stream now, a tidy bit of a schooner, the Bethlehem, with good lines and hull and large cabin accommodations.
The invasion resembled both a crusade against the infidel, and a treasure-hunting foray into the auriferous Indies, achievements by which Spanish chivalry had so often illustrated itself.
The thing failed this time, however, so the boys shouldered their tools and went away feeling that they had not trifled with fortune, but had fulfilled all the requirements that belong to the business of treasure-hunting.
The good yacht Agnes had been tied to her anchor less than half a day when this grand treasure-hunting expedition of ours showed symptoms of collapse. It was weak in the knees, groggy in its motions, and had fur on its tongue.
And then, she and Richard on some of their treasure-hunting expeditions which they were still planning every time they met, would unearth a casket some dark night by the light of a fitful lantern, and inside would be a confession written by the man who had really stolen the money, saying that Dan Darcy was innocent.
His Excellency the COMTE DE MONTE CRISTO. K.G., K.C.B., Knight of the Black Eagle. Directors. CHEVY SLIME, Esq., Berkeley Square. MONTAGUE TIGG, Esq., Park Lane. Secretary. DAVID CRIMP, Esq. Archaeological Adviser. Dr. SPIEGELMANN, Berlin. Then the prospectus! Treasure-hunting too long left to individual and uneducated enterprise. Need of organised and instructed effort.
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