Famous Five 01 - Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Animals, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Nature & the Natural World, General, Dogs
ISBN: 9780340931592
Publisher: Hodder Children's Division
Published: 2010-09-10T01:25:11+00:00

Chapter Ten

AN ASTONISHING OFFER

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THE next morning the papers were full of the extraordinary way in which the old wreck had been thrown up out of the sea. The newspaper men had got out of the children’s uncle the tale of the wreck and the lost gold, and some of them even managed to land on Kirrin Island and take pictures of the old ruined castle.

George was furious. “It’s my castle!” she stormed to her mother. “It’s my island. You said it could be mine. You did, you did!”

“I know, George dear,” said her mother. “But you really must be sensible. It can’t hurt the island to be landed on, and it can’t hurt the castle to be photographed.”

“But I don’t want it to be,” said George, her face dark and sulky. “It’s mine. And the wreck is mine. You said so.”

“Well, I didn’t know it was going to be thrown up like that,” said her mother. “Do be sensible, George. What can it possibly matter if people go to look at the wreck? You can’t stop them.”

George couldn’t stop them, but that didn’t make her any the less angry about it. The children were astonished at the interest that the cast-up wreck caused, and because of that, Kirrin Island became an object of great interest too. Sightseers from the places all around came to see it, and the fishermen managed to find the little inlet and land the people there. George sobbed with rage, and Julian tried to comfort her.

“Listen, George! No one knows our secret yet. We’ll wait till this excitement has died down, and then we’ll go to Kirrin Castle and find the ingots.”

“If someone doesn’t find them first,” said George, drying her eyes. She was furious with herself for crying, but she really couldn’t help it.

“How could they?” said Julian. “No one has seen inside the box yet! I’m going to wait my chance and get that map out before anyone sees it!”

But he didn’t have a chance, because something dreadful happened. Uncle Quentin sold the old box to a man who bought antique things! He came out from his study, beaming, a day or two after the excitement began, and told Aunt Fanny and the children.

“I’ve struck a very good bargain with that man,” he said to his wife. “You know that old tin-lined box from the wreck? Well, this fellow collects curious things like that, and he gave me a very good price for it. Very good indeed. More even than I could expect for the writing of my book! As soon as he saw the old map there and the old diary he said at once that he would buy the whole collection.”

The children stared at him in horror. The box was sold! Now someone would study that map and perhaps jump to what ‘ingots’ meant. The story of the lost gold had been put into all the newspapers now. Nobody could fail to know what the map showed if they studied it carefully.

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