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But miners are apt to be careless; men accustoard for danger And here was a case

in point Some Spanish overseer, evidently at a loss for a lyphics with an indelible pencil on this

particular wrapper It was clear that the figures and abbreviated

words referred to the develop and the position

of certain lodes, but Courtenay was quick to see that the official who

nize them Hence, the mine or store from

which the package had been stolen or bought could be identified Such

evidence was of high circumstantial value Courtenay put the wrapper

in the sa the time and

manner of its discovery, and forthwith dismissed it from his mind

It was almost dark when he went on deck The as keen and chilly

It whistled through the broken s of the wheel-house, and seelance aloft and at the

sky beyond the southern headland--Point Kansas, as it was called on

board--reassured hi arc overhead was cloudless The

stars of the southern heh less

familiar than those of the north, were reflected in the black water