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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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&quot;<br />

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

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

from you,&quot;<br />

said I, &quot;but I decline to give information<br />

to anybody who plays the despicable part of a thief.&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

What d yeh mean ?<br />

he snarled, reddening and<br />

looking particularly ugly with his head bandaged up<br />

and his eyes full of malignant fire.<br />

&quot;<br />

I mean that you pushed my gold overboard off the<br />

lighter for those rascally robbers to pick up<br />

in their<br />

launch.&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

Why, my dear young feller, you re mistook<br />

you re altogether mistook. I ain t shoved no gold<br />

off n no lighter. I don t know nothin about it.&quot;<br />

&quot;Your double negatives make the best possible<br />

affirmatives,&quot; I replied.<br />

But knowing that he did not<br />

understand that remark, I added: &quot;I do not believe<br />

you.<br />

I am positive that you<br />

did it.&quot;<br />

Well, I s pose yeh got a right to think anything yeh<br />

want, but I tell yeh, ye re a way off.<br />

If the gold went<br />

overboard it was on account o the way the lighter<br />

swung.&quot;<br />

&quot;It was because of the way you swung the box,&quot; I<br />

insisted, &quot;that sent it into the sea, and nothing<br />

else.<br />

But perhaps you<br />

ll be glad to learn that the men who<br />

made you go aboard the Flying Mist on a fool s errand<br />

are now under arrest. I mean Pete Slattery and his<br />

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