{"product_id":"2940015506143","title":"PIRATE GOLD","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: DISCOVERY                                                1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO: ROBBERY                                                 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART THREE: RECOVERY                                             137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePIRATE GOLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: DISCOVERY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt consisted of a few hundred new American eagles and a few times as\u003cbr\u003emany Spanish doubloons; for pirates like good broad pieces, fit to\u003cbr\u003eskim flat-spun across the waves, or play pitch-and-toss with for men's\u003cbr\u003elives or women's loves; they give five-dollar pieces or thin British\u003cbr\u003eguineas to the boy who brings them drink, and silver to their\u003cbr\u003ebootblacks, priests, or beggars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was contained--the gold--in an old canvas bag, a little rotten and\u003cbr\u003every brown and mouldy, but tied at the neck by a piece of stout and\u003cbr\u003etarnished braid of gold. It had no name or card upon it nor letters on\u003cbr\u003eits side, and it lay for nearly thirty years high on a shelf, in an\u003cbr\u003eold chest, behind three tiers of tins of papers, in the deepest corner\u003cbr\u003eof the vault of the old building of the Old Colony Bank.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet this money was passed to no one's credit on the bank's books, nor\u003cbr\u003ewas it carried as part of the bank's reserve. When the old concern\u003cbr\u003etook out its national charter, in 1863, it did not venture or did not\u003cbr\u003eremember to claim this specie as part of the reality behind its\u003cbr\u003egreenback circulation. It was never merged in other funds, nor\u003cbr\u003econverted, nor put at interest. The bag lay there intact, with one\u003cbr\u003ebrown stain of blood upon it, where Romolo de Soto had grasped it\u003cbr\u003ewhile a cutlass gash was fresh across his hand. And so it was carried,\u003cbr\u003ein specie, in its original package: \"Four hundred and twenty-three\u003cbr\u003eAmerican eagles, and fifteen hundred and fifty-six Spanish doubloons;\u003cbr\u003edeposited by ---- De Soto, June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and\u003cbr\u003etwenty-nine; _for the benefit of whom it may concern_.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd it concerned very much two people with whom our narration has to\u003cbr\u003edo,--one, James McMurtagh, our hero; the other, Mr. James Bowdoin,\u003cbr\u003ethen called Mr. James, member of the firm of James Bowdoin's Sons. For\u003cbr\u003eDe Soto, having escaped with his neck, took good pains never to call\u003cbr\u003efor his money.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147785552112,"sku":"2940015506143","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015506143","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}