This time, the Mississippi River is at the top and the Superdome would be at the bottom. But nothing seems to be a distinctive match and we already have plenty of Lafayette clues already.Today is Mardi Gras, so I might as well post a reminder: Somebody out there somewhere must have a photo of the parking lot that was located at the site of the former St. Charles Hotel.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wards_of_New_OrleansSo here is our final hiding spot (E). The Secret (subtitled as The Secret: A Treasure Hunt) is a fantasy novel created by Byron Preiss that was published in fall of 1982. If the "twenty-one from end to end" is a reference to Lafayette Street, then the "middle" where "three stand watch" is almost certainly a reference to   The largest and best-known city in Louisiana is New Orleans, where an enormous Mardi Gras celebration takes place each year. In the modern era of the internet, these lines from Verse 2 were quickly matched to their original source, but there wasn't any internet in 1980 and Preiss must have intended for this to be a fairly hard clue. It shouldn't be too hard. And the message of that message of that experience would be clear: Preservation!

(Both maps are rotated to have northwest at the top and southeast at the bottom.) The fact that they are not consistent (despite being very sharp and clear) makes it almost certain that they are clues. I don't think Preiss could have buried any of the casques later than 1980.Place St. Charles took many years to build, and was fenced off in the interim.

As a very rough guess, it might take a little more than a year for the construction to get that far along. But the earlier lines already led us to the square, so it would be a waste to simply repeat the same hint. If we follow the guidance of Image 7 and put the white circle of the Superdome at the top and rotate our map so that the streets in the downtown area form vertical and horizontal lines, we end up with the layout shown below (where northwest is at the top). Image 8 is linked with verse 1 and is probably situated in Houston. First, it resembles the sort of carnival mask that revelers sometimes wear during Mardi Gras, as in Photo used under a Creative Commons licenseIf you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old. The phrase "from end to end" is probably meant as a reminder that searchers should actually look for the western end of Lafayette, rather than assuming that it stops at Loyola and the Superdome.Here's the comparison between a modern satellite photo on the left and a 1980 Rand McNally street map on the right. From there we can follow either of two paths as shown by the arrows around the clock face. The Pontchartrain Expressway is the highway on the left. Canal Street is the major road that divides them. It works either way.

Good luck everyone. Unlike the numbers in the other two visible corners of the clock face, the "9" here is not clearly in line with the digit beside it. Here is the sovereign people who build palaces to shelter their heads for a night! The image and verse guide us down Lafayette Street to the Piazza d'Italia, which is shaped like a series of concentric circles interrupted by the shape of Italy. Image 4 linked with verse 4, which in turn lead to the discovery of a casque in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. The Southern Savings Association is visible at the corner of Common and St. Charles, partially hidden behind some small tree. Seen from above, the innermost circles radiate out from the terraces that form the 11th Ward is uptown primarily Garden District. So the best we can do is simply speculate about how the remaining clues might have finished the puzzle. Finding the description of the St. Charles Hotel would then be a very powerful confirmation that the searchers were on the right track. Image 9 has no verse links yet but is likely to be either Montreal or St. Louis.

One possibility is that it isn't really a "19" at all. An annotated image and walk-through of the riddle can be found here.As none of these are solved, these are just theoriesYes, the jewels are available; you just need to send in the key, which is inside the casque.