The Yeah. Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host

John Hagadorn. Get ready for a great African adventure story from each writer Hagard, one of the best

adventure writers of the Classic era.

And now Hunter Quartermain Story by H. Rider Haggard.

Sir Henry Curtis, as everybody acquainted with him knows, is one of the most hospitable men on earth.

It was in the course of the enjoyment of his hospitality at his place in Yorkshire the other

day that I heard the hunting story which I am now about to transcribe.

Many of those who read it will no doubt have heard some of the strange rumors that are flying

about to the effect that Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Goode, Royal Navy, recently found a vast

treasure of diamonds out in the heart of Africa, supposed to have been hidden by the Egyptians

or King Solomon or some other antique people.

I first saw the matter alluded to in a paragraph in one of the society papers the day

before I started for Yorkshire to pay my visit to Curtis and arrived

needless to say burning with curiosity for there is something very fascinating to the mind

in the idea of hidden treasure.

When I reached the hall I had once asked Curtis about it and he did not deny the truth of the

story, but on my pressing him to tell it he would not, nor would Captain Captain Good, who was also staying in the house.

You wouldn't believe me if I did, Sir Henry said, with one of the hearty laughs

which he'd become right out of his great lungs.

You must wait till Hunter Quartermain comes.

He will arrive here from Africa tonight, and I'm not going to say a word about the matter,

or good either, until he turns up.

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