Kidd the pirate buried his treasure but never went back to get it.
The devil as he always does with buried treasure took it under his guardianship.
Tom walker lives with his wife. His wife would always try to hid things from him because she wanted it all to be hers. They lived in a run down house and don't have alot of money. His wife is strong and loud and they always got into fights.
One day he takes a shortcut home and goes to were it is said the indians had placed spells
He sits on a log and starts to kick around in the dirt and finds something hard. He digs it out and fings that it is a skull with a tomahawk in it.
A person apears. He is black and has red eyes. He is wearing somewhat indian clothes. he is the devil. the trees fall down when people die.
The trees have wealthy peoples names written in them.
The one that he was sitting on had just been cut down and said the name Crowninshield.
Tom asks him who he is and the devil starts telling him. tome says "The up shot of all which is that if i mistake not you are he commonly called Old Scratch" Old Scratch- the devil
the devil tells tom of the tresure and the conditions to get it.
Tom asks how he could know if what he is saying is true so the devil touches his head and says "There's my signature"
When tom gets home and looks in the mirror he sees a finger print burnt into his forhead
His wife tells him that in the paper it says tht Crowninshield had died. This is when he realizes that it is real. He tells his wife about what has happened and she tells him that he should do it because she wants the money. He tells her no because he doesn't think that it is worth it. She decides that if he wont she will and just keep all the money to herself.
she goes and explains about the man and says that she has to go back but doesn't say why.
She leaves again and doesn't come back and doesn't come back. Tom is concered expecially when he finds out that she has taken everything valuble with her.
nobody knows what really happened to her.
Tom went out looking for her and saw crows eating something and sees her apren and the valubles in the tree above it.
but when he climbs up the tree all he finds in it is a heart and liver.
Tom sees hair that looks like it came from the devil and thinks that Old Scratch must have had a tough time of it.
Tom goes back because he thinks that he should make the deal with the devil. the devil tells him that he should put the money into the black trafic but tom won't become a slave trader. so instead they decide that tom will be a usurer. a person whoo lends money especially at an ususually or unlawfully high rate of interest.
Tome opens up in Bostern and gets lots of custemers. he becomes very wealthy and builds a big house gets a carriage and a horse.
he decies that he is going to try to cheat the devil. he becomes a churchgoer and prays
he carries a bible around with him and he gets his horse ready in case he would ever have to make a get away from the devil.
He finially gets mad and cries out for the devil to come and take him.
the devil comes and puts him on the horse and the horse takes him awa in the storm with fire coming up on every step
every thing that he had ends up to the devil
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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