Chapter 31 Chapter fifteen

On August 12th, the high-rise street house in Saint-Malo was full of joy. At nearly 10 o'clock, an unmarried couple walked out of the house surrounded by relatives and friends in festive costumes. The municipal government and the church successively received the festive crowd.At the town hall, the sub-prefect for marriages gave a beautiful speech; in the church, a fine lesson was heard on a subject that the Tilkemeler would never have dealt with.After the legal and religious ceremonies, the unmarried couple were matched as a couple.Then, the jubilant crowd led them back home. Since their marriage has gone through many twists and turns, I'm afraid it can't be mistaken. The newlyweds are Aino Carter and Jewell.

In this way, Jewell did not marry a princess, nor the daughter of a duke or viscount, nor did Enokat marry a prince, or any duke or viscount!Without Wan Guan's family wealth, their uncle's long-cherished wish had to be given up.This is a great joy for a pair of young people. Apart from the bride and groom, the other two were also overjoyed and beaming with joy: Nanon was absolutely assured of her daughter's happiness; White gloves. Fantastic... And what about Antiphere Pierre Servan Marlowe?Why not talk about him? Let us tell about him, and about the others.They once searched for the moon like a moon in the water to find wealth, and experienced a arduous expedition.

Disappointed, almost utterly hopeless, after discovering the last document concerning Isle No. 4, the passengers of the "Clone" returned to the ship.Maester Antiffel was carried up by sailors. Does this mean that in this final catastrophe he has lost his mind?Yes, but no insanity, maybe it's a good thing he's since lost his memory altogether?Besides, he was so down and out that neither Gilda nor Jewel could make him utter a word. The performer had no choice but to set foot on his way home, traveling both land and water, and ended the expedition quickly. The "Clone" took the passengers back to Hammerfest; then the North Cape steamer took them to Bergen.Since there was no train from Trondheim to Christian, they had to travel by car to the Norwegian capital.The ship sent them to Copenhagen, and finally, the railways of Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France took them to Paris first, and finally returned to St. Malo.

In Paris, Antifil and Zambugo say goodbye to each other unhappy.Miss Talisma will probably have to be an old maid for the rest of her life.Not even Pierre Servan Marlowe could get her out of trouble.The travel expenses provided by Zambugo, and the part spent by Antifel, a considerable sum, were fully repaid to him.But the money from selling the diamonds was not spent, and he still had a balance in his pocket.This is nothing to regret. So far the notary Bo Omar, he has not claimed the remaining money. "Now, go to hell!" said Maester Antiphere, as if sending him away. Gilda Tregman thought it appropriate to speak reassuringly, adding: "Let's talk it out with him as best we can!"

Bob Omar fled towards Alexandria, vowing to renounce the treasure from now on and never to look for it again. On the second day, Antifil, Gilda and Jouel returned to St. Malo.They were warmly welcomed by their compatriots. Of course, some jokes and sarcasm were mixed in, and they said things like: "The bamboo basket fetches water in vain." Nanon and Anokat were deeply affectionate towards their brothers, uncles, cousins ​​and friends, and kept comforting them.Everyone embraced warmly, and the family returned to the joy of the past. It is impossible for Master Antiphere to buy a dowry of one million francs for his nephew and niece, so he cannot refuse their marriage. His kind words show his attitude:

"As long as God pleases, let me be quiet, they can do as they please!" Everyone was satisfied with this promise.So, start planning the wedding. Antiphere, who is also an uncle and uncle, stood by and watched. He rarely left the room, sullen, and fiddled with countless small stones. He always restrained his anger, and he might explode if he didn't like it. The wedding was over, and none of the people persuaded him.Tregoman's entreaties were also in vain, and he said without hesitation: "You're wrong, friend!" "Come on." "You're embarrassing the kids...I'm asking you..."

"Captain Barge, as for me, please let me be quiet..." Finally, Jewel and Enokat became a pair of mandarin ducks, and the two houses in the courtyard house on Gaofang Street merged into one.They left the house, and went with Nanon to spend a happy time at the home of their close friend Tregoman.There, people talked about Maester Antifel, seeing him listless and angry all day long, and everyone was worried.He ignored anyone and stopped going out.The old days when he smoked his pipe, walked on the harbor pier or on the city walls, it was all over.After such a fiasco, he was ashamed to show his face.And that's exactly what happened.

"I'm worried that his health will deteriorate." Enoch said, when she talked about her uncle, her beautiful eyes were full of sadness. "I'm worried too, girl," replied Nanon. "I pray to God every day to make him calmer!" "He should have sent the tens of millions of money to the door..." Jewel shouted, "Damn Governor!" "Especially we can't find the tens of millions of francs!" replied Gilda Tregman, "but... the money is still there... somewhere... If we can solve the mystery, we should How wonderful! . . . ” One day the captain of the barge said to Jewell:

"I think your uncle didn't let it go, if he knew the island where the treasure is..." "Mr. Tregoman, what you said may be reasonable. What annoys him the most is that he clearly has the material on the No. 4 island in his hand, but the last few lines cannot be read... It's really annoying." "It's a complete failure this time!" The barge captain replied, "The material is just a piece of waste paper..." "But my uncle still keeps it, and he reads it from side to side without taking his eyes off it! . . . " "It's all in vain, boy, for nothing! . . . The treasure of Governor Camilk will never be found, never..."

This is an infinite unknown. Now, a few days after the marriage of the two young men, news of that odious Savuk was heard.The reason why he did not reach Spitsbergen first was that he was detained in Glasgow when he was about to board the ship.Everyone still remembers the attack on the priest of Tilkemel, who escaped with difficulty.With what dreadful manner did Savuk read the latitudes tattooed on his shoulders!For this reason, the police have aroused great concern and took measures to hunt down the criminals; Jiaogan provided the exact characteristics of the criminals. Besides, on the morning after the murder, Savuk didn't even return to the Empire Hotel, so he jumped on the train to Glasgow.In that port he hoped to find a ship bound for Bergen or Trondheim.He was from the West Bank.And Antifel and his party took the boat from the east coast of Scotland.It's almost the same path.He thought he could reach the destination first.

Unfortunately, it was a week before the boat left, and he had to wait in Glasgow.The police were lucky enough to recognize Suwuk when he was about to board the boat.He was immediately arrested and sentenced to several years in prison, so of course he could not go to Spitsbergen.Even if he goes, he will get nothing. From the first expedition in the Gulf of Oman, to the search in the Arctic Ocean, all the facts prove that the treasure must be still sleeping in the belly of some island where the careless owner has deposited it.There was probably only one person whom he didn't complain at all, he even thanked God: the Abbe Tierkemeler. However, as the days went by, if they hadn't seen their uncle's miserable appearance, Jewell and Abby Carter could have enjoyed the happy life of their newlyweds and honeymoon without any worries.And the young captain is about to take office and leave his beloved wife, family and friends.As the moment approached day by day, he was unhappy.The three-masted ship of the Bayf company is about to be built, and in six months, he will go on a long voyage to the Indies. Newlyweds often talk about these things.The young woman felt infinitely melancholy at the thought of parting from her husband.But where in the harbor is there any family that isn't used to being apart?Enocat didn't want to express his complaints from a personal point of view, but his uncle was difficult to deal with... For his nephew, it was unbearable and sad for his uncle to leave him in such a situation.Who knows if he will be able to see the old man again when he comes back? At every spare moment, Jewele would think of that incomplete material, of the last lines of that ancient parchment.He kept thinking about that sentence, and couldn't shake the thought. The line goes like this: "Just ask..." Just to... what? Then, there are these words: "The island... is located at the... theorems... poles of... geometry..." What geometry theorem is it?This theorem connects multiple small islands... the governor will never choose a small island lightly. ...the Gulf of Oman, the Gulf of Mayumba, and Spitsbergen again! ...Unless the governor loves mathematics... leave some difficult problems for future generations to solve? Regarding the word "pole", does this refer to the two ends of the Earth's axis?No!One hundred will not work! ...but what exactly does it mean? Jewele racked his brains for an answer, but to no avail. "Extremely...extremely...I'm afraid this is the crux of the matter?" He said to himself over and over again. He often talks about this with the barge captain.Ever since Tregoman didn't doubt the existence of billions of treasures, he also approved of Jewelle's spirit of breaking the casserole... "But, boy," he said, "don't break your body trying to solve this charade..." "Oh, Mr. Tregman, I assure you that it was not for me! Those treasures are to me scraps fit only for pulleys. It was for my uncle..." "Yes...for your uncle, Jewell, it must be hard!...It seems that you haven't figured out the way yet?" "No, Mr. Tregman, but, in that sentence, there is 'geometric', and the document points to geometric relations, not for nothing... and then just to... what..." "To... what?" repeated the barge captain. "Especially the word 'extreme', I really don't know what it means?" "Too bad, boy, I don't know anything about it! . . . I'll help you steer." Two months passed.There was no change in Antiphere's mental state or the solution of the problem. One day, October 10, before lunch, Enoch and Jewel were in their room. It was cold and a fire was burning in the fireplace.The young wife took Jeweler's hand and watched him silently.Seeing him so unhappy, she wanted to guide his thinking and cheer him up. "My Jewell," she said to him, "you often wrote to me during your travels, and I treasured all those letters... What pain that wandering caused us! I read your letters over and over again." . . . ” "Those letters only remind us of the past, my dear..." "Yes...however, I must keep it forever!...but those letters did not tell me what you have been through. About travel, you never told me in detail...tell me today ?" "Why do you need to talk?" "I like to hear it! It seems to me that I'm on the same ship with you...by the train...with the caravan..." "Honey, I need a map to show you point by point, our route..." "There just happens to be a globe over there...isn't that going to work?" "great!" Enocat went to Jewele's desk, fetched a globe on a metal foot, and pointed at Saint-Malo. "Let's go!" he said. Readers don't mind the two young men exchanging a few kisses at every point of the journey as the two tilted heads come together! Geulele jumped from France to Egypt in one fell swoop, and there Antifel and his companions went to Suez.Then, his fingers crossed the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and came to the Islamic State of Muscat. "That's it... Muscat, here..." Ainokat said, "The first island is nearby!" "Yes... right on the sea in the bay!" Then, Joel turned the globe again and went to the city of Tunis, where he met Zambugo.Crossing the Mediterranean, stopping at Dakar, crossing the equator, heading down the coast of Africa, stopping at Mayumba Bay. "Is the third island there?" Enoch asked. "Yes, my little one." Then, traveling up the coast of Africa and across Europe, they stopped at Edinburgh, where they made contact with Abbe Tierkemeler.Finally, pointing north, a young couple put their fingers on the bare rocks of Spitsbergen. "Is this the third island?" cried Anokat. "Yes, my dear, this is the third island. It is the greatest misfortune that awaits us there, and our foolish wanderings come to an end!" Enoch listened quietly, looking at the globe... "But why did the governor choose these three islands successively?" she asked. "That's what's puzzling us, and maybe we'll never know!" "forever?" "However, according to the information provided in the last document, these three small islands are probably connected by a geometric theorem. Also, the word 'extreme' makes me very troubled..." While talking, Jeweler answered the questions he had asked countless times.He was lost in thought.At this moment, his intellectual insight attacked that problem. While he was brooding, however, Enocat moved closer to the globe and happily traced the path Geulele had indicated with his finger.She put her finger on Muscat first, then drew an arc, returned to Mayumba, then continued to extend this arc, reached Spitsbergen, and then continued to extend the arc, returning to the starting point. "Hey," she said with a smile, "going in a circle... you've made a round-the-world trip..." "global?" "Yes, my friend...a circle...a trip around the world..." "Circle," Jeulele yelled. He stood up...in the room, took a few steps, and repeated the word: "A circle... a circle!" So he turned to the table again... picked up the globe... he also traced the circle of his journey on the globe with his fingers and screamed. "I found it... I found it!" "What did you find?" "The 4th small island!" Apparently, the young captain also lost his mind, the 4th island? ...Is it not possible? "Mr. Tregman, Mr. Tregman!" cried Jeweler, opening the window and calling his neighbor... Then he went back to the globe and looked at it as if he were talking to this ball of horse-dung paper... A minute later, the captain of the barge came to the room, and the young captain rushed to him, shouting: "I found it..." "What did you find, boy?" "I found out how the No. 3 island is geometrically linked together, and where should the No. 4 island be located..." "My God! How is this possible!" retorted Gilda. Seeing Jeweler's expression, he thought, the young captain is not crazy. "No," replied Jeweler, understanding what the other person meant, "no, I'm very sober... Listen to me..." "I'm all ears!" The 3 small islands are located on the circumference of the same arc.Then, we assume that these 3 small islands are on the same plane, connect them two by two with a straight line - as the document says, 'as long as...' - draw a vertical line in the middle of every two lines... These two perpendicular lines intersect in the middle of the arc, exactly at the center of the circle.Since this is the top of the globe, of course it is on this 'pole', and the No. 4 island must be on this point. Obviously, this is an extremely simple geometry problem. Governor Kamilke played a whimsical game with Captain Zou! ……Juel failed to find the answer earlier because he did not discover that the three islands are three points on the same circle. Enokat's beautiful and slender fingers drew this auspicious circle, which solved the problem easily. ... "Impossible!" repeated the barge captain. "Mr Tregman, that's right, just look at it and you'll be convinced!" He put the globe in front of the captain of the barge and drew a circle. The three small islands were located on the circle. The points Camilke chose on the circle were: Muscat, Mayumba, Cape Verde Islands, The summer solstice line, the southeast island of Spitsbergen, the Kara Sea, Tobolsk in Siberia, and so, if Jeulele is right, islet number 4 forms exactly the center of the circle, Because, the circle on the planar view, that is, the top of the globe, the pole of the globe is the center of circle. Gilda Tregoman is still in the fog.The young captain paced up and down, couldn't help kissing the globe, and then kissed Enocat's cheeks, those cheeks were much gentler than the hard spherical surface of the globe.He added: "Mr Tregman, she found it. I would never have thought of going up here without her!" Jewele was delighted in his heart and smiled on his brows.Gilda, equally ecstatic, began to dance, legs out to the sides, hips swinging, arms dancing in circles.Like a fairy weighing 200 kg dancing!He rolled from starboard to port in a way that the Lovely Amélie never rocked on the Rance, nor did the Portalegre with her elephants.He sang at the top of his voice the song of Pierre Servan Marlowe: "I have longitude... There it is! I have latitude... Larry I have latitude... I have longitude! " However, everything calmed down. "Should have told my uncle!" said Enochat. "Tell him?" Gilda Tregoman was a little taken aback by the suggestion. "Is that appropriate?" "It's worth considering!" Jewell replied. They called Nanon, and the old Breton woman understood the truth of the matter at once, and when Joule asked what to do with her brother, she said without hesitation: "We shouldn't hide anything from him." "However, if it's a scam, can uncle bear it?" Enokat reminded. "A hoax?" cried the barge captain. "No, not this time!" "The last document indicated that the treasure was buried on Isle No. 4." Joule added, "Island No. 4 is located in the very center of the circle we drew just now. This time, it must be correct..." "I'm going to my brother!" was all Nanon said. After a while, Antiphere came to Jewell's room.His eyes were still full of anger, his face was gloomy, and his brows were furrowed. "What's up?" The tone of his voice was simply creepy, and everyone felt a nameless anger inside. Jeweler told him everything that happened, how the geometric connection of the three small islands was discovered, and how the fourth small island must be at the center of the circle. Antiphere's expression was natural, and he showed no signs of nervousness. Everyone was amazed by this.He seemed to have anticipated that this information would come sooner or later, which was very natural. "Jeule, where is the center of the circle?" That was all he asked.This is actually what interests him the most. Jewell was on a globe, using a folding rule and a marking pen, as if operating on a flat surface.He drew a line connecting Maast and Mayumba, and another line connecting Mayumba and Spitsbergen, and in the middle of these two lines he drew a vertical line. Lines intersect exactly at the center of the circle. The center of the circle is in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and Cape Bon, next to Banterella Island. "There . . . uncle . . . there!" said Jewell. After carefully copying down the warp and latitude, he declared decisively: "Latitude 37 degrees 26 minutes north, longitude 10 degrees 33 minutes east of the Paris meridian." "But is there an island there?" asked Gilda Tregoman: "There should be one," replied Jewell. "There must be an island... I assure you, Captain Barge," said Antifil, "I assure you... Ah, a disaster of billions and trillions!!!" Amidst a roar and a curse that made the windows tremble, he left Enocat's room and returned to his own, where he did not appear all day.