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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

The <strong>Lure</strong> o 9<br />

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

wait. I ll tow you in for twenty thousand dollars, and<br />

say nothing about salvage.&quot;<br />

Oh, yes, you will,&quot; undertoned the Captain. Then<br />

he called out:<br />

I ll<br />

give you forty dollars a ton.&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

You re riding a little high, ain t ?&quot;<br />

you<br />

asked<br />

the<br />

unobliging master, satirically.<br />

&quot;Did<br />

you burn your<br />

ballast ? Where s<br />

your masts and after deckhouse ?<br />

dollars a ton called &quot;<br />

!<br />

Captain Head.<br />

&quot;<br />

That s<br />

Fifty<br />

as high as I ll<br />

go.&quot;<br />

&quot;Say twenty thousand, and I ll<br />

pass you<br />

the line.<br />

That s reasonable.&quot;<br />

&quot;Reasonable? you pirate!&quot; yelled our Captain,<br />

stamping the deck and &quot;<br />

cursing loudly. You needn t<br />

take this ship for any old derelict. Her engines are in<br />

good working order, and we re not out of fuel.<br />

We ll<br />

get into port as soon as you do.&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

Yes, if you put your whole ship into your furnaces,&quot;<br />

laughed the Captain of the San Bernardino; and there<br />

were echoing<br />

&quot;haw-haws&quot; from his officers. &quot;What<br />

are you burning now that stinks so ? It ain t Welling<br />

ton coal, by a long chalk. Say<br />

the word and I ll tie<br />

you up at the dock by Thursday night.&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

No, sir ! I ll have no dealings with a pirate of the<br />

high seas.<br />

You ve struck the wrong man this voyage.<br />

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