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It was a difficult job to get the cases on deck, they being heavy, and the space in which they were stowed very confined; but, of course, they managed it at last, and late in the afternoon the whole was transferred to the Nonsuch and safely stowed away in her treasure-room.
The treasure-room which had so dazzled Robert consisted now of merely four bare walls, while the gleaming dust upon the floor proclaimed the fate of that magnificent collection of gems which had alone amounted to a royal fortune. Of all the machinery no single piece remained intact, and even the glass table was shattered into three pieces.
But the most popular room of all with visitors and quite naturally is the little boudoiresque study of Francis I, with its voluptuous ladies on the ceiling and the secret treasure-room leading from it, while on the way, just outside the door, is a convenient oubliette into which to push any inconvenient visitor. The loggia, which Mr.
The twelve heyducks, bending under their heavy burden, entered the skiff, and piled up the silver-ware, then sprang again ashore. "We are going to the treasure-room, will you follow us?" said Fredersdorf. "Certainly; if not, you may perhaps expect to leave me here as sentinel." "That is not at all necessary; there are some soldiers with loaded muskets in the skiff. Come."
While he was in despair he suddenly saw a stranger standing near the door, the same visitor he had seen yesterday for the first time in his treasure-room, and who had granted his wish. "Well, friend Midas," he said, "pray how are you enjoying your new power?" Midas shook his head. "I am very miserable," he said. "Very miserable, are you?" exclaimed the stranger.
It was as if the long-locked door to the inner sanctum of his soul had swung open, betraying all the wealth of a treasure-room the very existence of which was unsuspected by any other man: for the treasure it contained was the gathered store of his many years of labor, moulded now into the Credo of his working life: the creed by which he lived; which was slowly writing itself upon his face.
Midas bent down his head, without speaking; for he recognised 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.
Placing the lamp in a convenient position, and throwing the bags on the floor of the treasure-room, Edgar and Baldwin set to work diligently with the crowbars, broke open the kegs, and emptied their golden contents into one of the bags, until it was quite full; tied up the mouth, fastened it to a rope which communicated with the boat above, and gave the signal to hoist away.
Sleep had just closed his eyelids, and he had even already entered upon a vision of fairy enchantment, doubtless conjured up to his imagination by the gorgeous spectacle of the treasure-room, when he was startled by screams which appeared to issue from the very wall of the alcove, at the head of his bed.
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