The Deep Page #5

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so valuable, belonging to the king of Spain.

You might not put it on a prime target like a flagship.

You might just put it on a French tobacco ship.

You know the fleet would be there for protection...

but then the whole fleet sinks

except the French tobacco ship...

and the governor keeps to his story...

and he lists the box as lost along with the fleet.

I'll buy it.

The Grifon sails again...

and this time it gets caught

in another hurricane off Bermuda...

and it sinks.

The poor old governor of Havana...

he has to go back to Madrid

and live on his pension, right?

You know, girl, if we could just find

one item down there...

just one that's on your shopping list...

we've found our bloody provenance.

That's why he wouldn't let me dive.

Damn you, Treece.

David?

"E.F." It's E.F. again.

Treece. Treece.

Up. Up. Everybody, up.

The both of you, up.

Let me get this first.

- Get up.

- Let me get this first.

I don't care what you've found, boy.

Wait, get the dredge.

David, our only chance is to go up in the bubbles.

Take all the breath you can.

I'm gonna cut the air hoses, so stay close.

What the hell happened up here?

Old Fellini came by in his boat.

He was all rummed up. God help me.

I must have been dozing or something.

When I looked out, all that stuff in the water...

and the sharks were all over.

Why didn't you warn us on that compressor?

I was gonna turn it on, I was.

But then I knew you wouldn't know

what kind of trouble you was in...

and I might send you right into them.

Thank God you came through.

I knew there was more than morphine down there...

all those ampoules coming up so slow like they were.

Yes. That's right, Adam.

I might just have saved your life

for something after all.

Hey, boy. Get that dredge up.

There'll be no more diving today,

not with all those sharks around.

All right, once again.

One more time, just for the hell of it.

Oh, I'm too tired.

Let's face it. We haven't got our provenance.

All the jewelry we found must be on those missing pages.

Well, let's go over it again

just one more time for the hell of it.

All right, and give me a rum, would you?

One golden ruby-studded cross.

Good morning.

Kevin.

Four tanks. They need filling.

Treece is expecting me. They all up there?

Aye, they're there.

Gail, let me see the...

Let me see your sketch of the Grifon.

It's in my bag.

- Is there any fresh coffee, David?

- Yeah, it's on the table.

Wait a minute, this is the medallion.

I want the original one, the Goliath.

- It's in there too.

- No, it's not in here at all.

- It must be.

- Well, you come look.

You're right. It's not.

Adam.

I think I'll take a breath of air.

Do you mind locking up after me?

Thank you.

Jesus. That's it. That is it.

- What?

- Live seen this.

I've seen part of this.

I've seen part of this down there.

- Seen what?

- Well...

See, she's wearing a dragon pendant...

but when you drew this, these lines,

I thought that was her dress...

but you drew this before Treece cleaned the medallion.

Now, I've seen this chain.

I've seen this chain down there.

I was trying to get it.

On the list, there's something about gold chains...

chains of gold. Something like that.

- Nope, there's nothing about chains.

- Yes. Yes, there is.

There is a dragon pendant. "A gold-jeweled dragon."

That's it. That's it.

Then the jeweler that made this

pendant also made this medallion.

Now, if I go down there and I find the chain...

and the dragon is at the end of the chain...

then we've got our proof, babe.

We got our proof, huh? All right.

Kev?

Treece, we solved it. It was here all along.

It's the provenance. David's seen part of it down there.

- You solved nothing.

- What the hell you talking about?

I'm going to blow the Goliath now.

Why now?

Because if anything happens to me...

there's nobody else left to do it.

What do you mean, if anything happens to you?

You go ahead and blow the Goliath,

Treece. You go ahead and blow it.

But first, I'm going down there.

I'm getting that provenance.

Go upstairs, pack, and go home.

To hell with it, Treece. I'm not doing that.

I'm going down there...

and you're gonna have to blow me up too.

As you please, boy.

Excuse me.

You don't need me down there, do you?

No, I don't think I do.

Coffin.

They killed Kevin.

David, I'm gonna signal you when I fire this fuse.

After that, I don't care if you've found

the Holy Grail itself.

You've only got three minutes, so get out.

Listen. Now, don't worry.

Just turn on the air dredge when I get in, all right?

I'll be all right, huh?

David.

David! Here!

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