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...Spenlove tells the story. (Captain Remson's wife had been too corrupted, apparently, by the slack code of U. S. high society to understand an English gentleman.) Remson finally ended up in the South American jungle, where legend had it he had found gold mines. Actually his treasure trove was an ideal woman and ideal peace, manifesting "a character that seems to me likely to carry him through our times and on into better times...
...family feeling died hard with Lady Talbot. Before letting these heirlooms out of her hands she conned every page, neatly inked out every passage, every word that she considered indelicate. Her labor of love cost experts a year and a half to delete the deletions. To edit this treasure trove for the press proud Collector Isham imported scholarly Author Geoffrey Scott (Portrait of Zelide) who died in harness, leaving the long job for Yale's Frederick A. Pottle to finish...
...other members of the Josefowitz family. Inside were four bags, the weight of which convinced the agents that their search was ended. Opened, the bags revealed a treasure in the form of $20 gold pieces. For three hours the agents counted, found 10,000 coins in the Josefowitz treasure trove. At present gold prices, the metal was worth about...
...Treasure Trove. Standard plot for thrillers since Treasure Island is two bitterly hostile groups of adventurers competing to discover and carry off a fabulous hoard of pirate treasure. Such was the plot which Representative O'Connor's House Rules Committee and Senator Hugo La Fayette Black's Senate Lobby Investigating Committee were playing, with the testimony of Howard Colwell Hopson as the Treasure Trove. The steps by which the ambitious rivals reached their present state of front page enmity...
...assets, he believes, are his Castle Famine and a motley handful of loyal bog-trotters. There are tales that the castle is the hiding place of treasure, but he does not take them seriously until a credulous banker offers to lend him money on the security of the unfound trove. Meantime. The O'Flynn has enlisted on the side of William of Orange, only to fall in love with a noblewoman. Lady Benedette Mount-Michael (Lucy Monroe), whose sympathies are with' James. The gallant Irishman thereupon changes sides...