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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

My<br />

Burden is Resumed<br />

to reach port sometime to-night.<br />

The passengers are<br />

talking about a steamer to the eastward, but I haven t<br />

picked her up yet.&quot;<br />

I looked sharply about the eastern horizon.<br />

&quot;There she is!&quot; I cried. &quot;Maybe<br />

more obliging than the other was.&quot;<br />

this one will be<br />

&quot;Oh, yes; I see her. Well, she isn t<br />

throwing out<br />

much smoke.&quot;<br />

We went up to where Captain<br />

glass pointed toward the steamer.<br />

Head stood with his<br />

&quot;She s a little queer,&quot;<br />

said the Captain.<br />

&quot;I can t<br />

make her out just yet.<br />

I don t believe she s<br />

making<br />

much way. She can t be the San Bernardino. She<br />

would be blowing out smoke for further orders.<br />

But<br />

by thunder, that s what she is !<br />

The San Bernardino ?<br />

Why, she ought to be dump<br />

ing her coal over at the S. P. wharf by this time,&quot; was<br />

the Doctor s oracular remark.<br />

&quot;<br />

It s the San Bernardino all right,&quot;<br />

said the Captain.<br />

&quot;<br />

I wonder why he s running her so slow. Well, we ll<br />

know pretty<br />

soon.&quot;<br />

In less than an hour we were near enough<br />

for close<br />

observation. The steamer was drifting about idly, every<br />

stitch of her smoke-begrimed canvas to the breeze.

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