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Updated: June 20, 2025
On our arrival at Hong-Kong, the agent of the owners sent off to see what could be done in the way of recovering the treasure on board there being no less than fifty thousand pounds sterling in gold in her treasure-room, besides valuables belonging to passengers.
Midas bent down his head without speaking, for he recognized the same figure which had appeared to him the day before in the treasure-room and had bestowed on him this disastrous faculty of the Golden Touch.
Even the remotest corners had their share of it, and were lighted up, when the stranger smiled, as with tips of flame and sparkles of fire. As Midas knew that he had carefully turned the key in the lock, and that no mortal strength could possibly break into his treasure-room, he of course concluded that his visitor must be something more than mortal. It is no matter about telling you who he was.
The King called his negroes and said to them: "This time when you have caught Half-a-Cock, put it in a house and shut all the doors till morning. I will kill it myself." The negroes seized him immediately and put him in the treasure-room. When it got there, it saw money under its feet.
Riding forth with him in person, there was nothing appertaining to the business of his mission which the Duke did not bring beneath his notice, whether fortifications or artillery. Beside this, he opened his own private treasure-room, displaying all its contents, and particularly some pictures and portraits of his ancestors, executed by masters in their time excellent.
The very tiptop of enjoyment would never be reached, unless the whole world were to become his treasure-room, and be filled with yellow metal which should be all his own.
I visited the Schatz Kammer, the treasure-room, and saw men go almost demented at the spectacle of the gold and jewels heaped up in the cases. The sight of the splendour, the heaped-up jewels, the batons, the faded, and sometimes bloody, garments, the trinkets and decorations, associated with towering personalities of the past, attuned my spirit for some adventure above the commonplace.
The very tip-top of enjoyment would never be reached unless the whole world were to become his treasure-room and be filled with yellow metal which should be all his own.
Some of the gold had been washed out of the treasure-room in their absence, and was not easily recovered from the sand and sea-weed.
Finally, all the moon could see as it shone upon the flood was the weather-vane of the highest turret of all. You should have seen the little waves ripple and break about it! And finally, even the weather-vane disappeared under the black waves. Locked in his secret treasure-room, opening the jewel coffers one after the other, the King remained quite ignorant of the disaster.
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