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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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The <strong>Lure</strong> o 9<br />

<strong>Gold</strong><br />

It would have made an old detective smile to see<br />

how I clung to that buoy, the one remaining object that<br />

related to my<br />

lost treasure. During<br />

the whole of my<br />

careful inquiry I came and went along the beach with<br />

that white object closely hugged under my arm.<br />

To<br />

ward evening, however, when I saw that no good could<br />

come of carrying<br />

it about, I took it down to the lighter<br />

man s station and handed it over to him. It was his<br />

property, and I had sadly concluded that it would be of<br />

more service to him than it could ever be to me. In<br />

fact, in<br />

my hopeless state, I began to wish that it never<br />

had marked the place where the treasure fell overboard.<br />

For then the villains could not now be enjoying the<br />

fortune with which I had counted upon doing; so much.<br />

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