41 Lure O Gold 1904

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M y Burden is
Resumed
And then I gave him an outline of the adventures
that I have detailed more fully to the readers of the fore
going chapters.
The next day, after the gold had been deposited in
the Mint, I saw Trust and the others in prison, which I
visited in company with Doctor Quaritch.
Somers and
Bill were lying on their cots behind the bars, apparently
asleep. Fishley was reading a newspaper, and per
sistently kept his face away from us. Trust was smok
ing a cigarette and writing in a corner of his cell.
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Wait a minute," said he, as we turned to go.
just putting the finishing touches to this."
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I m
A moment later he rose, gathered up a half-dozen
sheets of writing paper that lay before him, and passed
them through the bars to me, saying
:
Here s something I wrote for you."
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For me ?
I asked, wondering.
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Yes, for you
to read."
I surmised that the scrawl
he had penciled on the
paper was some sort of plea for clemency on the part
of the complaining witness against
him. But it con
sisted of eleven stanzas of what purported to be poetry,
at the top of which I read the title :
Lament."
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The Gold-Seeker s