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."