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Riley waited breathlessly for Katie's response. It came quickly.
"Yes Riley, I would love to!" She smiled at him.
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"Ben! Ben! You'll never guess what happened!" Riley had finished his breakfast with Katie, and was now home changing for work.
"No, I'm sure you're right Mr. Poole, I won't be able to guess. What happened?" Ben's calm voice couldn't discourage Riley.
"Katie agreed to be my girlfriend! Imagine, me, the biggest geek of all time, has a girlfriend!" Riley practically screamed it, he was so excited. Luckily for him, he couldn't see Ben holding the phone away from his ear and wincing.
"That's very exciting Mr. Poole. Now if you don't mind, I have an incredible development with the Booth diary here. It would seem that the cipher wasn't a map to just one treasure. It may, in fact, have been a map to another treasure. The lost silver of Blackbeard the Pirate. Isn't that exciting? We may have another treasure to find." Ben added a little life to the conversation. "Why don't you come over, and we can read over the information?" He suddenly heard a click, and realized that Riley had hung up. "Geek!" Ben muttered.
Riley wrapped up a strenuous day of work. He had been required to work the cash register for three hours, then was made to stack three boxes of cornflakes on the shelves. Ryan Wilkinson was on his way to the back room when he walked past Riley, stacking cereal. He was going to continue on when he heard Riley talking.
"38 grams of…um…sugar! That's right, and uhhh…156 calories!' Ryan quickly realized that Riley was memorizing the nutrition facts on the boxes. He hurried on, but not without thinking, "boy that guy has issues." He arrived in his office in the back room, where Katie was waiting for him.
"So, what did you get for me?" He waited impatiently.
"He asked me to be his girlfriend." Katie said smugly.
"Great! That means you will be even closer to him more of the time, you will be able to watch him more. I heard wind that Ben Gates has figured out the other treasure that the diary page revealed. He'll be after it in no time. We can sit back, and let them do all the work. You will disguise yourself as Katie again, and join in on the hunt. All the information you get, pass on to me. We will beat Gates there, and discover the treasure for ourselves. Then we can set a trap for Gates and his goons, and revenge my brother's death." He had an evil glint to his eye, as Katie leaned over and kissed him.
"I gotta go, I'm supposed to be having dinner with Riley at Ben and Abigail's tonight."
"Perfect," Wilkinson exclaimed. "See if you can get them to talk about the treasure!"
Katie's POV
Later that evening, Katie finished eating the last of her fried chicken and mashed potatoes. The food had been delicious, as Riley had promised. The talk had been all boring though, something about the Charlotte, whatever that was. She perked up, however, as the talk became interesting.
"So Riley, want to hear about Blackbeard's treasure? We're considering searching for it, because we finally found the clue on the page." Ben pulled out his notes as Riley nodded.
"Okay, here it is. Legends of Captain Blackbeard have been throughout history, however, this one is has been recorded and if anyone could find this treasure would be a very rich individual. In 1811, Captain Blackbeard commissioned by the British Admiralty was asked to raise the wreckage of a Spanish galleon off the shores of the Bahamas Islands. During this time, England and France were at war and the English wished the cargo to be taken to an American port safe from hands of Napoleonic France.
Captain Blackbeard did manage to raise the ship and made it to Baltimore. He then contacted a warship to tow the ship and all of its treasure to an English port.
While having a few drinks at a Baltimore tavern in June of 1812, Blackbeard was met with Peter Abelhard Karthaus, which was a famous privateer of the time. He informed Blackbeard that he knew of the ship that he brought to Maryland and that it held $1,500,000 worth of silver bars.
Now, Blackbeard knew his voyage was going to be even harder to accomplish between the French and the pirates, he did not have much of a chance of getting the treasure safely to an English port across the sea.
He then decided to go by land and rivers. Going through the land route through Canada would be safer and was only around 400 miles through rugged terrain. His route would be to follow the Susquehanna north to where Williamsport is today, then to Sinnemahoning River until he made it to Emporium as we know it today. Then they would have to travel 23 miles over the Keating Summit to the Allegheny River close to Port Allegany. This entire area was known to trappers, traders, and of course hostile Indians as Canoe Place. All that they needed to do was to follow the Allegheny to the mouth of the Conewango Creek and then up to Chautauqua Lake. Then he could just go down to Lake Erie very easily. Britain at the time controlled Lake Erie, so it would be the closest English port to secure the treasure in English hands.
The silver bars were placed into wagons with false bottoms. The terrain and wilderness held many difficulties that Blackbeard had not expected. They had to build rafts on two occasions, and during one of the turbulent events on the Susquehanna River, the raft capsized and they lost the oxen and the wagons into the river below. By the time they reached Clinton County, Blackbeard was fed up. America and England were now also at war and Blackbeard could not trust anyone they met along the trail.
Blackbeard decided to bury the treasure for safekeeping until he could safely get it to the English. Fort Niagara was blocked and Lake Erie was full with American boats, the only choice Blackbeard now had was to bury the loot.
Sometime during the summer of 1812, close to the village of Keating Summit the treasure was buried near an old saltlick. To this day, no one was ever told the exact whereabouts of the treasure from the Spanish galleon." Ben finished reading and looked up. "What do you think?"
"I think it sounds really exciting," Katie enthused. "Would you guys mind if I helped?" She put on a fake smile.
"No, that would be fine!" Ben smiled at her.
"What are we waiting for?" Riley asked. "Let's go!"
Hmm, a lot happened in this chapter. Katie isn't really nice, she's evil, and we have a new treasure. Review and you get a new chapter!!!
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