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"Well, gentle story, and I know that et me safely stowed in chokey I'll make it as short as I can The villain Sholto went off to India, but he never ca a list of passengers in one of the mail-boats very shortly afterwards His uncle had died, leaving him a fortune, and he had left the army, yet he could stoop to treat five ra shortly afterwards, and found, as we expected, that the treasure was indeed gone The scoundrel had stolen it all, without carrying out one of the conditions on which we had sold hieance I thought of it by day and I nursed it by night It beca for the law,--nothing for the gallows To escape, to track down Sholto, to have ra treasure had co of Sholto

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