The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-13
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leaned against the rail, balancing
herself easily at the dhow rolled.
'"The first thing is to make sure of
getting away with the stuff. Hen
ninger thinks we had better divide
the gold and scatter it as much as
possible
What for? Will anyone rob u.s."
asked Margaret, quietly.
"Yes-the government police"
said Bennett.
But | hought-Haven't we
right to the gold? Isn't it ours?"
Heaven knows it ought to be.
after all we've gone through" re-
marked Elliott.
But isn't it," Margaret insisted.
You're not sophisticated enough,
Miss Laurie" said Henninger.
There's always claimant for as
much money as this. The gold
seems to have been stolen from the
Transvaal government, and it's GER
tain that the English government
will claim tiff they hear that it's
been recovered. But We, don't In
tend that they shall hear"
Then this gold belongs to the
English government?
81 thought you understood the sit
uation. Legally, perhaps, it does,
but"
"Then I shall not take an atom
Of it, said Margaret.
But we must" exclaimed FL
lott. "We're injuring no one"
I'm not a thief" Margaret inter-
rupted again, and walked forward.
The Adventures looked at one
climbed up the ladder to look with
an alarmed countenance over the
deck.
She's got to take it," said Ben
nett.
Yes. of course she must take
her share" agreed Henninger.
Cad, she's the pluckiest woman
ever saw. She's been a regular
brick all through this thing"
shell take it or not, as she
pleases," said Elliott, in an unusual
ly aggressive tone, and failing to
grasp the humor of the situation.
Maybe you won't take any of it
yourself" Hawke satirized.
''Therell be all the more for the
rest of you if l don't returned Ell
lott.
1.-The fact is, we're all getting
nervous and morbid" Henninger
remarked "a good sleep is the
best antidote, and I'm going to turn
in"
Bennett also swathed himself In
his blanket and sought soft plank
by the lee rail, with the prospect Of
being rolled across the deck when
the dhow should go upon the other
tack. Hawke retired out of sight
below, and Elliott was left to ST.
Hence.
A yard beneath his feet were
nearly $2,000,000 in hard gold; the
treasure that had spun so much in
trigue and mystery over three con-
tinents was in his power at last.
But the price had been paid; there
had been blood enough spilled to
! redden every sovereign or louis or
| double eagle that might ever be
minted from the metal.
AS he brooded there in the dark,
| there arose in him a loathing and a
horror Of the gold that had work
ed like a potent poison in the heart
of every man who had known Of It.
| Margaret had not yet gone to her
hammock. He could see her at the
bow, looking forward over the
sweeping seas in the cloudy moon
light. She thought him a thief:
she had as good as said so; and he
watched her, feeling strangely as
If everything depended upon her
staying there till he was released
from duty.
Bennett came up at midnight 10
relieve him, and Elliott went for.
ward at once. But he could think
of nothing in the manner of what
he wanted to say, and after few
commonplaces he fell silent, and
they leaned over the grow together
listening to the sucking gurgle and
the kissing crash as the cutwater
split the seas.
81 want you to see clearly just