When you hear a dying confession of a buried treasure, would a slight detour really be that big of a deal?

Dick Donovan, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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The Pirates Treasure by Dick Donovan. At the time, the startling events I'm about to relate

occurred. I had but recently passed my final examination

in medicine, after what I may modestly say was a successful course of study in Glasgow,

of which city I am a native. For some time I had been anxiously expecting my diploma,

which would give me the right to practice my profession, and I was trying to obtain an appointment as surgeon on board a splendid East Indianman,

known as the Clydesdale.

Singularly enough, on the very day that I received the intimation

that my application had been favourably considered,

I was placed in position of a letter from a dear friend in London,

asking me if I would proceed on his behalf,

with all possible speed, to Suriname, on a very delicate and important mission.

For an hour or two I was exercised in my mind as to the proper course I ought to pursue in my own

interests, that as, whether I should accept the Clydesdale appointment or undertake

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