41 Lure O Gold 1904

"
The Steam Collier
with the axes and other tools wielded by the busy
workers.
I saw Trust, who had managed to exchange his
heavy mattock for a light axe, ripping off the casing
boards in
a way
that would have astonished some of
his old idling, gaming friends; but Somers was not in
the hold, and I wondered if he were bent on individual
search in some other part of the vessel.
"There s no gold in here," I heard a man call out,
as the last piece of casing was torn off with a loud creak.
"
If it s in the hold at all, it s under what planks there
is left in the flooring."
But when, after another half hour, the floor planks
were all torn up, the whole crew concentrating their
energies on the last one and darting quick, anxious
glances under it,
place,
"The
Mr. Nason ?
there was a call of "What s the next
steerage," replied the mate, shortly. And
there was a rush to that part of the vessel,
near at hand.
which was
My throat was now aching again,
the stateroom to make a new application of the Doc
and I started for
tor s gargle. Beside a piece of torn canvas that had
been stuck up by some of the passengers for a night
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