41 Lure O Gold 1904

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Finding is
Keeping"
and that there was a chance of getting it yet
and of
making away with it. So they have gone to work,
hammer and tongs, to discover the stuff."
"But in case they find it,"
said I, "what can they
do with it ?
They can t take it off the steamer."
"I don t know what they may have schemed as to
that; but they re very crafty and full of rascally re
sources."
I was much impressed by the Doctor s
conjectures,
and it pleased me to observe that his process of reason
ing had almost, if not quite, convinced him of Max
Fishley s complicity in the crime.
I thought that if these theories of the Doctor should
prove to be correct, it was evident that Somers and
Trust were altogether in the dark respecting the where
abouts of the treasure.
joice.
As to this I was ready to re
It seemed to me eminently just that the two
villains should lose their loot. And as far as I could
see I had as good a chance of getting it
now as before.
I thought that Fishley s visit to the hold must have been
due to his anxiety over the treasure. He was, no
doubt, so fearful that some one should find it that he
could not keep at his post,
which for the time was on
deck, but had to be running down below to see what
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