41 Lure O Gold 1904

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The Lure o
Gold
What s the matter, Yo ?
asked the Doctor.
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Whom
do you think you have got ?
"Gol Jobber, gol
Jobber see!" he blew out be
tween his short breaths. "See, he have disappeared
his bad eye behind that-a thing."
We looked and saw that the captured passenger wore
a black blinder over one of his eyes; but the man was
not Slattery.
"Let
go of me, you
little heathen!" shouted the in
nocent stranger, not relishing the attack nor the laugh
ter of the crowd.
"Yes ;
let him go
!" I commanded. "He isn t the man."
But Yohara looked inquiringly at the Doctor, and
would not relax his tenacious grip upon the long-tailed
parka until his master had recovered from the attack
of laughter in which his red face grew redder than
ever and shouted at him to desist from his overzealous
efforts to detain the man, who was writhing and
shaking himself and calling out :
you And
little rascal !
I ll
disappear your eye,
you
ll never see out of it
again ! "
"Gangway! gangway!" shouted a man carrying a
big trunk; and Yohara, covered with confusion, slunk
back to the Doctor s side.
Soon all the passengers and their luggage were aboard,
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