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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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The Bulkhead Door<br />

though they re bright enough when it comes to handling<br />

the steamer. But if that box should break open, you<br />

couldn t get one of em to touch it for love or money.&quot;<br />

Under ordinary circumstances I should have dreamt<br />

of the dead man that night,<br />

and should have shivered<br />

at the thought of him tossing about in the empty hold,<br />

with the beer bottles smashing and crashing all<br />

him.<br />

about<br />

But my thoughts were all of the gold, and of the<br />

fact for it seemed to me assuredly a fact, after what<br />

I had seen and heard<br />

that my precious dust was hid<br />

den away down in the depths of the ship.<br />

All that need<br />

be done now, so I fancied, was to make a careful<br />

search for it, when it doubtless would be unearthed<br />

and brought safely upon deck.<br />

I planned that I should take the most scrupulously<br />

watchful care of it this time, until it should be safely<br />

deposited in the purser s hands.<br />

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