of the hidden treasure. Here it was only the beginning of fortress.
Behind a door the small tunnel began. The tunnel came to an end steel
tower. The tower closed the tunnel, and the third floor of the cellar had an appearance of huge
the arch which is held down by reinforced concrete walls four and a half thick
meter.
– This tower weighs fourteen tons, – the guide explained, – and
it is set in motion by the special electric mechanism.
The elevator lowered night visitors to the most first floor. Here began
the whole labyrinth of halls, the courses, confidential boxes in the walls disguised
storerooms.
Steps of travelers were given in empty halls by a repeated echo. In one of
halls gold, gemstones, important documents – all was stored
stolen for years it was accumulated in these safes.
There was an underground lake above. If it was only required, water
lakes could be flooded all basement floor.
This most unapproachable fortress in the world is not built, and dug in
whole granite on which there is a city. Five years that were required
to finish rocky works.
Armies of burglars could use all the life on penetration
in fortress without any hope for success. And certainly, not against
burglars all these exclusive measures were undertaken: if enemy
will occupy the city, it, naturally, will direct to gold. Applying most
modern means for blasting fortresses, it should work
it is a lot of months <the description of this bank not fiction of the author. Similar bank,
for example, is in Paris (The French national bank).>.
According to instructions of the associate director of bank the watchman opened a steel door,
the leader to the small reinforced concrete room which walls were filled
fireproof boxes. Marshal opened one of them own key,
having picked up the figures which are previously located in a corresponding way on
the rotating ring.
Guides showed such bashfulness as if the banker was a girl,
going to bathe: as soon as it undertook the suitcase, they departed
for a door also staid all the time there while the banker took out the treasures and
moved them to a fireproof case. It were diamonds and ingots such
sizes what were not seen even by lady Hinton. In each of them was
fortune.
Having finished this operation, the banker closed a case, thanked the
satellites also left bank.
But on it its efforts did not end. Being going to leave Earth, it
cared more that will remain on Earth, than about unusual
baggage.
The banker did not trust even the superfortress. It ideally protects from
thieves? Well. From enemy attack? Perfectly. But whether it can
to protect from revolution?. Attack of enemies on the city not so disturbed
the banker, as revolution and fear to lose the riches frightened.
No walls and underground hiding places will save then treasure of bankers. And
he decided to hide the most valuable that it had, in two places.
He had to make one more trip with the authorized representative,
the friend Ribot on whom he relied, as on itself (himself), to Andorra,
small republic close to Spain. This republic
has only four hundred twenty five square kilometers of the area and
six villages of the population. Surrounded from all directions with unapproachable
mountains, having only one good road through the Spanish border, this
the remote corner of Europe was chosen long ago by Marshal.
Several years ago he bought the abandoned site in Andorra
lands in the deserted area, near the Pyrenean mountains. Here, in the gorge,
the large share of richness of the March la was secretly buried. Iron chests
were deeply dug in different places and are filled up with stones.
If at least one such treasure remains, the banker will be able upon return on
The earth to begin business again. By then, according to the baron,
revolution will be suppressed.
A lot of money for bribery of bank was necessary to spend Marshalya
workers, that large withdrawal did not appear in books and at all not
it would be revealed before flying away of the banker.
Marshal de Terlinzh could fly quietly.
***
Collecting to the road brought the greatest trouble upon Semuel Stormer. But to us
it is necessary to tell before several words about that way which brought in
“Noah’s Ark” of the new participant who quickly seized all threads
managements of “Joint-stock company” and the chairman who moved forward on a post
boards. It possessed also an initiative of creation of the whole squadron
“arks” for rescue of capitalists of the other countries.
Semuel Stormer was once one of the richest people, the member
eighty five joint-stock companies, chairman of sixty others
and away, and so forth. Said about it that it “keeps half of Europe in waistcoat
pocket’.
