Jaime Merchant was born the 21 of June of 1887. Her mother left it to the eleven months and being educated with his father,
a player professional swindler who taught the office to him. After one of them both are forced to weigh anchor towards America fleeing from a swindled Marquess. The boat is shipwrecked in the coasts of Colombia and his father does not appear between the rest of the boat being low the protection of a Syria wreck Rasul to which he rescued in the shipwreck. After different adventures in the Bombay hall where soon it will initiate its activities like crupier of its own casino, and that will make him flee from Barranquilla to Cartagena where it will continue with its activities in the premises of the Greek Adamantios Zolotas in the Bogota Coffee. There Guevara knows the Tadeo crazy person who gives a Bible to him where she finds the track to find the Cross of the Gilded one, a
treasure del that always speaks. In order to obtain it it must decipher an hidden message in him who takes to his house where he
discovers the map of the treasure painted in the ceiling, after a Virgin. He appears a new personage, Antonia Guevara who claims to be granddaughter of Tadeo and she convinces to him to cross the country in search of the treasure. Another personage appears, tuerto that he follows to them and he will turn out to be his father who did not suffocate, and the son of Welter that demands the part of the treasure that it alters by inheritance, but as no of the parts wants it to share from that moment Welter and its killers are persecuted by. When they arrive at Uiraracu, after sailing by the river Magdalena and crossing the forest, they discover that the cross is an average log rotted by the years. They return to Cartagena and the father of Jaime discovers the truth: The wood cross was a falsification. They go again to the Bible and they find a secret message written with lemon juice in the gospel of San Mateo. The cross was hidden the false tomb of Left-handed Adela Cord, with whose letters the cross of the gilded one is written. There they found the wonderful cross. They appear the inhabitants of Uiraracu with Luis Obando, his guide, to demand the treasure and decide to give back the cross to them to which they venerate. Luis in gratefulness gives an enormous emerald them that finally Antonia robs to them of the pocket of Jaime while she gives a kiss him.