41 Lure O Gold 1904

"
The Heat of the Gold-Hunt
never the same old Modesto.
And have you noticed
how she has come up out of the water ?
Why, a good
lively gale now would lay her on her beam-ends like a
log.
How are you feeling ?
I told him about my sore throat, and he led me back
to his stateroom and prepared a gargle for me.
"
I suppose,"
he said,
"
they ll be tearing up
this room
before long. They re working
on 31 now and this is
22. But perhaps something may happen before then
something may happen."
Through the open doorway I heard the call repeated :
"All first watch to the forehold!"
"Well, Doctor," I said, "I must get to work again.
Somebody will
be getting that gold dust and keeping
it."
"
You re right,"
he said.
"
We mustn t let up, I sup
pose. But there must be at least four days more of
this
four days more, unless something turns up."
As I passed along the line of doomed staterooms,
and came to the end, where the work of demolition was
in progress,
I noted that the next room marked for
destruction, because of its
being
nearest the one most
lately destroyed,
was the cabin of the second and third
officers.
As I paused near this cabin I saw a passenger
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