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"'A noble piece, Captain!' says he, gasping for breath, and then to her, 'Art gone, oddess--I--follow thee!' And now he sinks to his knees and begins to crahere she lay, but getting no further than her feet (by reason of his faintness) he clasps her feet and kisses the his head upon theroans, 'er--'

"Then I came very hastily and raised his head (for I had oft heard talk o' this treasure), and in thatto the seaboard sat there a great while watching the break o' the seas on as left o' the wreck, yet seeing it not I sat there till noon, Martin, until, driven by thirst and hunger and heat of sun, I set off to seek their habitation, for by their looks I judged them well-fed and housed But, and here was the n of any hut or shelter save that afforded by nature (as caves and trees), and was forced to satisfy s with such fruits as flourished in profusion, for this island, Martin, is a very earthly paradise That night, the ht, I caoon where they lay together rigid and pale and, though I had no other tool but his dagger and a piece o' driftwood, reat pirave Which done, I betook eth into a lake, and there passed the night Next day, having explored the island very thoroughly, and dined as best I ht behold the sea and fell to viewing of this silver-hilted dagger"

"The which was shaped like to a wo er, and of the tales I had heard full oft along the Main regarding this sa this dagger, turning and twisting it this way and that And suddenly, shipmate, I felt the head turn upon the shoulders 'twixt the clasping hands; turn and turn until it came away and showed a cavity, and in this cavity a roll of parchment, and that parchraht of