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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

The <strong>Lure</strong> o<br />

<strong>Gold</strong><br />

(&amp;lt;<br />

&quot;<br />

All ashore !<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

Well, good-bye !<br />

yelled the vibrant voice a second time.<br />

said the Doctor, seizing my hand<br />

again.<br />

What external intelligence I possessed was merged<br />

into a mute hand-grip. But all<br />

my real consciousness<br />

was concentrated upon the fleeting and baffling vision<br />

of that burning eye.<br />

Good-bye,&quot; I said, with intense preoccupation, and<br />

stood stock-still.<br />

&quot;There s<br />

nothing the matter with you, is there,<br />

John ?<br />

asked the Doctor.<br />

&quot;<br />

You aren t are ill, you ?<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;No,&quot;<br />

said &quot;I<br />

I; m all<br />

seized his hand again in my<br />

Good-bye !<br />

right. Good-bye!&quot;<br />

I<br />

confused abstraction.<br />

I repeated, and yet I did not move.<br />

&quot;All<br />

ashore!&quot;<br />

Can it be can it be the man ?<br />

I was struggling<br />

with the uncertainty of the impression, commanding it<br />

and yielding to it<br />

by turns.<br />

&quot;Ain t<br />

yeh comin ashore, young<br />

feller?&quot; called out<br />

the lighterman from below. &quot;If<br />

yeh be, yeh d better<br />

git<br />

a move on.&quot;<br />

I limped down the steps to the lighter s deck, and<br />

stood near the bottom stair when one of the lines was<br />

cast off. The tugboat whistled shrilly.<br />

A man ran to<br />

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