Chapters 26-30 Summary

Staying at an historic and expensive hotel in Biarritz on the coast of France under the name of Baroness Marguerite de Chantilly, Tracy Whitney is approached by a man at dinner who says he's got an accurate map that shows where a shipwreck lies that contains gold bullion. Professor Adolf Zuckerman says he is a school teacher who doesn't have the $100,000 he needs to pay for the retrieval of the gold worth $50 million. Tracy offers to provide him the $100,000 for an equal share in the treasure. Zuckerman works for an underworld figure named Armand Grangier; the co-conspirators intend to tell Tracy that the salvage ship has had an accident and they need another $100,000, and they plan to continue the con as long as possible. The hardened Grangier realizes that Tracy is also a con artist and decides to visit her hotel...