Chapters 21-25 Summary

Wopner goes to the post office looking for a package when he encounters Clay. He doesn't want to talk to him, but Clay begins to talk about the buried treasure, and Wopner lets it slip that the treasure is valued at two billion dollars. Clay asks if they are having problems and Wopner says no. Clay brings up the disasters that have befallen other groups that tried to dig for the treasure and also the people that have disappeared at the island. Just then the postal mistress arrives with Clay's packages and he goes outside.

Chapter Twenty-Two opens with the next day as Hatch walks around the island checking on the progress of the cofferdam the crew is building. It is the end of the workday. Isobel is riding back to shore in the Plain Jane with Hatch. She openly flirts...