" The house collapsed and toppled down the hillside as Getz was freed, and all of the gang members were killed except the fleeing Vorstedt.He cannot forget their common past.Poelzig had been commander of Ft.Marmorus during its last terrible battle in World War I - and perhaps the man who betrayed the fort to the enemy, the Russians, resulting in the deaths of thousands of countrymen.Jack reunited with his starving and exasperated pirate crew and the heavy vault at his beached pirate ship theDying Gull, where hey found that the safe was emptied of all its fortune except for one gold coin.We made a pact to bring our ashes here when we died.""If you die first,"" I told him, ""I""ll bring yours here.If I die first, you""ll bring mine."" Yet, I know now, people you love don""t really die.The ranch clock chimed three times (3:00 am) on their return as they entered the ranch""s front door.She stated she had a "different opinion" of his book and had found it "quite absorbing" - the change came because she "got interested in one of the characters.All of the aspects about he city and its inhabitants in Isaac""s five dictated descriptions were basically illustrated in the subsequent film ("the hustle-bustle," "lack of individual integrity," "the easy way out," "a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage" and more).