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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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In the<br />

Shaft Alley<br />

with my bare fist, and tried to pick up the cold chisel<br />

to strike him with it.<br />

He came at me again with the<br />

knife uplifted, but he was pulled back by the others.<br />

He floundered violently and lost the knife. Then he<br />

rose, leaning against the side of the alley,<br />

and kicked<br />

his<br />

way back a few feet. At last he and Trust sprang<br />

upon me simultaneously at either side, each man trying<br />

to roll me over in a different way and get at the gold.<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

Don t let em git<br />

it !<br />

I heard a ringing nasal voice<br />

cry out.<br />

&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

Don t let em git<br />

it !<br />

The mob sprang at us again, and pushed and hud<br />

dled itself into a mass that could hardly<br />

lift hand or<br />

foot. I felt a terrible weight upon my breast. My<br />

face was buried in the greasy, sweltering, naked back<br />

of a prostrate man. The contact was insufferably<br />

loathsome to me, but I could not escape<br />

it.<br />

My legs<br />

were pinned down and something was grinding on my<br />

head.<br />

Then a dense blackness stole quietly over me,<br />

great wheels hummed in my head, and of what went<br />

forward during the next half-hour I was utterly ob<br />

livious.<br />

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