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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

How<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

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

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

which the cunning Jap had taken from broom-handles,<br />

and twisted around neat hardwood thumb-screws.<br />

&quot;What are you going to do with this?&quot; asked the<br />

Doctor of Yohara. &quot;It s no time to be playing<br />

it on<br />

deck. If the Captain saw you with it he d make music<br />

for you.&quot;<br />

Oh, I no going play now,&quot; said the Jap, sadly, shak<br />

ing his head.<br />

&quot;What then?&quot;<br />

&quot;I<br />

putting<br />

it into chute.&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

The dickens you exclaimed the Doctor.<br />

are,&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

Yes, I sinking it burn very well make good fire<br />

for the ship for one minute.&quot;<br />

many miles do you think we d run on it, Yo<br />

hara ?<br />

snickered the second officer.<br />

&quot;Don t<br />

laugh at him,&quot; said the Doctor, seriously.<br />

&quot;Don t<br />

you see what a sacrifice he s making? This<br />

yo-kin is the apple of his eye.<br />

It took him weeks and<br />

weeks to make it. It s the only treasure he s got,<br />

and<br />

he s willing to part with it for the good of the ship.<br />

Now I call that a genuine sacrifice a piece of down<br />

right good-heartedness .<br />

&quot;So it is,&quot;<br />

said Mr. Lovell, &quot;and I shouldn t have<br />

laughed, only it s so perfectly<br />

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