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"One day, however, I got word that he was dying I hurried at once to the garden, mad that he should slip out of h the , I saw hi in his bed, with his sons on each side of hih and taken my chance with the three of them, only even as I looked at hiot into his rooh, and I searched his papers to see if there was any record of where he had hidden our jewels There was not a line, however: so I cae as a ht ain it would be a satisfaction to know that I had left son of the four of us, as it had been on the chart, and I pinned it on his bosorave without some token from theat this tia at fairs and other such places as the black cannibal He would eat raw meat and dance his war-dance: so ays had a hatful of pennies after a day's work I still heard all the news froe, and for some years there was no news to hear, except that they were hunting for the treasure At last, however, ca The treasure had been found It was up at the top of the house, in Mr Bartholomew Sholto's chemical laboratory I came at once and had a look at the place, but I could not see hoithI was to make my way up to it I learned, however, about a trap-door in the roof, and also about Mr Sholto's supper-hour It seea I brought hi rope wound round his waist He could clih the roof, but, as ill luck would have it, Bartholoht he had done so hi about as proud as a peacock Very much surprised was he when I made at him with the rope's end and cursed him for a little blood-thirsty imp I took the treasure-box and let it down, and then slid down n of the four upon the table, to show that the jewels had coa then pulled up the rope, closed the , and made off the way that he had come