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"You must be awful rich, Black Bart," said L'Olonnois todown my coffee cup, "on the contrary,

I as, back there where you live; and last

night you said you would pay that man a hundred dollars, just to open

a lot of claht of

money"

"That depends, Jiht to take them pearls," broke in Lafitte "Didn't we

lick hiain, a fierce

satisfaction in the first conquest of our invader, that of body to

body, eye to eye; rather than in the one where I brought intellect to

aid in war "But there are tays of being a pirate Let us see if

we can not win treasure by taking a chance in logic, and so be modern

pirates"

They did not understand me, and went mute, but at last Jimmy resumed

his catechism "Who owns the place where you live, Black Bart?"

"I do"

"But how much?"

"Some five or six miles"