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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the bag and showed me what was in it. It was full of precious stones?diamonds, rubies, and the like; some of them as large as birds' eggs. I can see him now, propped up against the boat and playing with them in the sunlight. They blazed like stars. Half a million he put them at, or more. What good could they be to him when he was dead? inquired the listener. Captain Bowers shook his head. That was his business, not mine, he replied. It was nothing to do with me. When he died I dug a grave for him, as I told you, with a bit of a broken oar, and laid him and the bag together. A month afterwards I was taken off by a passing schooner and landed safe at Sydney. Mr. Chalk stopped, and mechanically picking up the pieces of his pipe placed them on the table. Suppose that you had heard afterwards that the things had been stolen? he remarked. If I had, then I should have given information, I think, said the other. It all depends. Ah but how could you have found them again ? inquired Mr. Chalk, with the air of one propounding a poser. With my map, said the captain, slowly. Before I left I made a map of the island and got its position from the schooner that picked me up; but I never heard a word from that day to this. Could you find them now? said Mr. Chalk. Why not ? said the captain, with a short laugh. The island hasn't run away. He rose as he spoke and, tossing the fragments of ' How could you have found them again ? inquired Mr. Chalk, with the air of one propounding a poser. his visitor's pipe into the fireplace, invited him to take a turn in the garden. Mr. Chalk, after a feeble attempt to discuss the matter further, reluctantly obeyed. CHAPTER III MR. CHALK, with his mind full of the story he had just ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217705813 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217705812 |
| Weight | 0.63 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 In |
| List Price | $21.24 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 190 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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