41 Lure O Gold 1904

The Lure o
Gold
them. I brushed these specks together. There was
about a teaspoonful of them altogether.
I held them
close to the nearest light.
"
"
The gold has been here !
I cried,
"
for here is some
of it!"
All the heads of the searchers crowded closely about
me, and among them the sinister one
of the rascally
Trust, to whom, however, I paid no attention, in the
excitement of the moment, except to remark that he
seemed to be very much disappointed about something.
"Yes,"
said Mr. Nason, examining the moist grains
They
in my hand. "That s gold dust, all
right.
must have spilled a little in it
taking out. See that
small nail there. Maybe it punched
a hole in one of
the sacks."
"So
you think the gold was really
asked the Doctor.
hidden there?"
"It
certainly looks like it,"
said Mr. Nason. "You
take the shape of this piece of plank,
and the careful
was cut out, together with these grains of gold,
way it
and I think you ve got to admit that gold was stowed
away here, and within a few days, too, for those rubber
gaskets worked altogether too easy to have been long
sticking to that bulkhead door. That gold
is hidden
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