41 Lure O Gold 1904

The Lure o
Gold
Jap would sing the weirdest songs "night poems,"
he called them greatl} .to the entertainment of the
passengers. Dressed in his native garb, he would do a
sort of grand opera performance in Japanese all by him
self,
flourishing a wooden sword which he would pull
out and thrust into his belt, clasping the handle while
he recited poems which he afterward interpreted in his
queer English.
Those first days of the voyage were calm enough,
and I should greatly have enjoyed the being abroad
on the early autumn seas, where the air was brisk and
not cold, and where no hint of the fogs and mists that
often prevail in those latitudes obscured the vision
which could reach afar.
But the thoughts of
my lost
treasure and of how to recover it were almost constantly
in my mind.
It harried me sadly to think that nothing
was being done toward the positive detection of the
guilt
of the men who called themselves Somers and
Trust. I felt like going to Trust, telling
him that I
knew his real name, charging him with having stolen
my gold, and demanding the restoration of it. But
whenever I hinted at any action of this sort to the Doc
tor he was ready with his cool caution of awaiting the
turn of events.
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