HELP!! How to recover something Emptied in the trash???

I had a few important text files that I--while using an external drive that I THOUGHT I was deleting older versions from--accidentally and stupidly put in the trash, then emptied it. Immediately after, I realized what I'd done. WHAT can I do to try to recover these??? Help!!

I suspect some people just browse; new people who wonder what the forums are about. 3 people out of potential of whatever number of people in the world with Internet access isn't many.
On the turnaround time, you posted your question at 4:19 in the morning my time. This is still very early in the morning for many (I know not all; e.g. Roger Wilmut1 in the U.K.) of the frequent respondents of this forum. Your second post was only 23 minutes after the first post. I suspect even when people are around to check A.D. they still have other things in life to distract them from the computer for 23 minutes.

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