A Tale of Three Books

[bigscoop]

His hands were fragile and old, the power and strength they once possessed all but gone in his declining years. His eyes weren't much better, the flame of the candle reflecting in the lenses of the reading glasses perched on his nose. The room is small, a crackling fire across the way warming its rustic space.


As he sits at the faded wooden table he brushes the dust from the old leather diary in his hands, a scurrying mouse taking the opportunity to find hiding in the pile of cut limbs. The old man smiles, his scurrying friend has no need to fear him. And then the diary is opened, the taking of a little time to glimpse into his own past.


“In this diary will be all that remains of my life, the secrets to all of the possessions I have hidden away on this earth. Items of gold, silver, coin, jewels and gems. My adventures and cause require me to scatter my means throughout so that I will always have resource. I know much of this will be laid without return and that it will remain as I lay it long after my eventual passing, but such is required and so it must be. So it is that within this diary I will detail each cache so that after my passing someone of good soul will share my adventures and what remains of them with others who seek the thrill of adventure and discovery.”


The old man slowly closes the diary and he set's it atop the other two, his mind quietly reflecting on the fifty-years that have since passed. Someday his diaries will arrive into the hands of an honorable man. It is his greatest wish that this man will provide means in such a way that others will learn of his adventures one cache at time.


Spotting his little friend's head peaking out of the woodpile the old man shares a few soft spoken words with him. “Ah my little friend. You and I believe all future events can be controlled with precision and certainty. Let us pray that we are not wrong.” And with these spoken words the old man rises up and he blows out the candle. This old man has been dead some two hundred years now and still the three books containing the story of his life have yet to surface. Who might be the chosen one?

 

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[texasred777]

Interesting! Where did this story originate? Is this your story, Bigscoop, or is it something you have read? Is there more to this story? If so, where can I find it? Sounds very interesting; plus there is mention of 2 more books.

 

[bigscoop]

Interesting! Where did this story originate? Is this your story, Bigscoop, or is it something you have read? Is there more to this story? If so, where can I find it? Sounds very interesting; plus there is mention of 2 more books.

I plan to add more of the story later. And no, you probably can't find this story anywhere else. And yes, there is more to the story.

 

[auferret]

I plan to add more of the story later. And no, you probably can't find this story anywhere else. And yes, there is more to the story.

I would certainly hope so. And okay, this is a good place to read it. And please continue, you have us hooked now.

 

[bigscoop]

He had come to this continent when it was still quite young, the British, Spanish, and French still trying to hang on to whatever pieces they could. He had lived half of his life the aggressor, the other half on the run, his entire existence a long string of obscure aliases that can still be encountered today. To some he had been a troubling rouge, to others he had been a valuable aid, he had held seating with the influential and elite and he had traveled the frontier and high seas with bandits and privateers. In his time he had saved lives and taken others, all of this being done to help forge a nation.


Concealed wealth was something that had to be maintained and always kept close at hand, scattering it about in secret locations always insuring that one would never be without. It is the plunder of successes turned fuel for the cause. It was banking in secret, the private financing of an unrealized war. To the victors go the spoils, and so it had. What remains will go to those with proper spirit and resolve.

 

[bigscoop]

The pages in the old diaries read of fascinating adventure, the telling of past history, the secret locations requiring a bit of investigation to ascertain accurate meaning. The clues are assembled much like the links of a chain, when one link has been fully understood and explained another will then be attached. "Once a real cache has been located and received its content and must be displayed for all here to see and share or the chain will become forever broken." So with the old man's rules in place let us now start reading from the first diary.



“After taking considerable plunder from a Spanish vessel in the Bahama Straits we first set sail to Charleston to make quiet trade and to gather fresh supplies, from here we tracked south again, first to the Spanish town of Ford Cou and then to where the Minorcans had once made journey and placed hope.....”

 

[texasred777]

Hmmm, this could be the start of something huge! The way it starts makes me believe that a whole series of books could be written about this person. There just might be some 'rewards' for these writings. If written well, the right publisher found, etc., it might be quite lucrative for you, Bigscoop.

 

[bigscoop]

Hmmm, this could be the start of something huge! The way it starts makes me believe that a whole series of books could be written about this person. There just might be some 'rewards' for these writings. If written well, the right publisher found, etc., it might be quite lucrative for you, Bigscoop.

Texasred, you are pretty sharp and now that the cat is out of the bag let me explain that this thread was just a teaser to what is about to come. The books you speak of have already been written and the "real treasures" have already been put into place. This series of actual treasure hunting books will be titled The Keeper Of The Three Lost Books and the first one will be available for download before Christmas. This has been a pet project of mine for quite some time now and it is almost ready to be launched. This first hunt has been sub-titled Sterling and Stones to offer you clue of the cache that awaits (There's also a little gold and some other trinkets in there too.) So pass the word as the start of this hunt is close at hand. As soon as the first book is available for download I'll post that information here.

 

[Old Silver]

Lafitte?

 

[bigscoop]

Lafitte?

Not so much a Laffite thing, but period correct.