My Buried Treasure

My Buried Treasure by Richard Harding Davis is a fictional adventure about the narrator's perilous search for treasure with his inscrutable college friend, Edgar Powell. Excerpt: «You!» I exclaimed. «Search for buried treasure?» My tone visibly annoyed him. Even the eyeglasses radiated disapproval. «I see nothing amusing in the idea,» Edgar protested coldly. «It is a plain business proposition. I find the outlay will be small, and if I am successful the returns should be large; at a rough estimate about one million dollars.»