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“Attila’s father’s You will get a third if you help me”

“A third of what?”

“A third of whatever we find,” said Bako “I can tell you we’ve found some of the treasures already There was one in Italy There was one in France with so old it took a truck to carry it out There was a smaller one in the Transylvanian forest, and one on the north bank of the Danube that was ten shipping crates of gold and gems”

“You have all of this gold and jewelry? Sendwith it and send , a necklace, anything in your next ship one by air tomorrow”

“I can send you a sample Notin France, some competitors went and found the one in Italy That treasure I never saw I only read about it in the newspapers The one in France was dug up by our friend Étienne Le Clerc He took pictures, but those co the Danube,up today, and they took pictures The actual treasure is now in the hands of the Hungarian government”

Poliakoff said, “So you know these treasures exist, but you don’t have them Who are these competitors who took these treasures from you?”

“It’s an Ao They’re rich treasure hunters, and they’ve found sonificent riches in other parts of the world, but never anything like this There can’t be many treasures like these Attila swept out of Asia across the Ural and the Volga all the way to France, robbing cities And I f

ound out where he hid most of those riches”

Poliakoff said, “This is just two people—and one of the you and Le Clerc of a treasure worth millions and millions?”

“Billions But it’s not just two people When Fargo needs men, he hires them When he doesn’t, they vanish like smoke He also has the help of Albrecht Fischer, one of the world’s leading scholars on the late Roo believes he’s about to be oute of the treasure”

Poliakoff said, “Arpad, you ain tell this story to anyone If any of the people we both deal with heard it, they’d think you eak They’d turn on you like wolves and eat you up”

“Are you interested in my offer or not?”

“Oh, I’ll do it for you,” said Poliakoff “Where is your wonderful treasure now?”

“It’s buried in a chamber in the city of Taraz in Kazakhstan I’ll send you a map”