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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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Searching for<br />

the Treasure<br />

Tom breathed hard several times and gulped a little<br />

before he could say a word.<br />

&quot;No; tain t no ghost,&quot; gasped he at last,<br />

&quot;it s a real<br />

live dead man, sticking his head through a box and<br />

asking what s the time o<br />

day.&quot;<br />

&quot;Sho!&quot; said Mr. Nason, &quot;you<br />

re off, Tom. You<br />

and Pete and George pile up that dunnage<br />

back there<br />

dead man.&quot;<br />

while the Doctor and I look at your<br />

The three seamen went forward, while the Doctor<br />

and Mr. Nason crunched over the glass. I followed<br />

my friends and heard the first officer say quietly to the<br />

Doctor :<br />

&quot;<br />

I m sorry that man found the box, which must have<br />

broke open in some way while being tossed around in<br />

this empty m hole. I sorry he found it, for you know<br />

what a lot of fuss these chaps make over such things at<br />

sea. That dead man was one of the richest miners in<br />

Nome. Too much whiskey and tundra water took<br />

him off, and we ve got to take his body home to his<br />

widow or there ll be no end of trouble. But these chaps<br />

may chuck him overboard now on the sly, so that we<br />

can get safely into port.&quot;<br />

&quot;Yes,&quot; remarked the Doctor, &quot;they<br />

ll be laying all<br />

our bad luck to him.&quot;<br />

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