41 Lure O Gold 1904

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The Heat of the Gold-Hunt
but it wouldn t be fair to the rest to let it stand and cut
down the others."
"
Well, if it s got to go I want my own men to do it.
I want ship s hands and not these haymakers. I got
things
in there I want taken out before the work is
begun."
"
All right,"
said Mr. Lovell, good-naturedly.
Only
I advise you to be more respectful to these passengers.
They re doing this to be obliging, and they re working
very hard."
Oh, I know and you know what they re workin*
so hard fer. It ain t to keep the fires a-goin It s
.
"Oh, stow your jaw, old man!" called the second
officer in his great, good-humored voice.
"
Begin on
this next cabin, gentlemen,"
he said to the passengers.
Although
I knew that Mr. Nason wanted all his
hands down below, I was lax enough in my duty to slip
back to the Doctor and ask him if
he would carefully
note everything that was taken out of the second and
third officers cabin. I told him I suspected from Max
Fishley s actions that the gold might have been stowed
away
in there.
"It s unlikely,"
said Doctor Quaritch, "very
un
likely, for Fishley must have taken fright
after what
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