41 Lure O Gold 1904

"
The Lure o
Gold
come aboard. And they just sailed away
with him.
He must feel rotten cheap by
this time."
When we passed down to where the Doctor stood on
the sands he made sharper queries, based on his nautical
knowledge, but nothing shaking the ugly fact that Bill
had wholly escaped us and had gotten away on the
Flying Mist could be learned.
"They fooled him said the good," lighterman when
we had fully discussed the robbery and Bill s connec
tion with it, an it serves the cuss jolly well right.
He
allus was a-shirkin ,
no-account chap, but I didn t
think he d jine a gang o
dust-lifters like them."
"
"
So you think he was really in with the other fellows ?
remarked the Doctor.
"Why, it s only what I sispicion, yeh know, but it
stands to reason, don t it ? The critters that pulled up
the dust told him they d jine
him in the Fly in
Mist an
sheer the gold with him. So as soon as the baggage
is off he goes an hides away
on the schooner until the
lighter goes ashore, all expectin the time them fellers
would come out in their launch an bring the gold an
sail away with him. But the lunkhead got
left. He
might a knowed they wasn t goin to go an divvy up
with him, an if he d had a grain o sense which he
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