“Do you mean she’s going for good—and you knew she would be?” she asked in astonishment. “Just that—though I didn’t know exactly when she’d go,” he acknowledged, still gazing out to sea. “But they haven’t found any treasure—or have they?” she asked with sudden suspicion. Martin shook his head. “Not so far as I know," he said. “But then they didn’t expect to.” “But of course they must have done!” Fenella insisted. “It costs thousands of pounds for these salvage ventures. No one would think of risking all that money if there wasn’t a good chance of getting that and more back!” “No, they wouldn’t,” Martin agreed. “But then this isn’t and never was a treasure hunt. It’s simply been that what with the old story that’s been passed down by word of mouth for generations and the fact of any outsiders taking an interest in Nimrod, it’s come to mean that you’ve only got to say the name of the ship for everyone immediately to think ‘treasure’ because the original story has become more and more highly coloured over the years.
