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when this Dago died----"

"Which Dago?" asked Bones

"The Dago that knew all about it," said Mr Dibbs i, I found this" He shook the

oilskin case in Bones's face "Well, the first thing I did, when I got

to Sydney, was to desert, and I got a chap froton to put up

the money to hire a boat to take ot there?" said Bones sy but crabs, drank nothing but

rain-water But the stuff was there all right, only"--he was very

e--"it wasn't under the third tree,

but the fourth tree I got down to the first of the boxes, and it was

as much as I could do to lift it out I couldn't trust any of the

Kanaka boys ith me"

"Naturally," said Bones "An' I'll bet they didn't trust you, the

naughty old Kanakas"

"Look here," said Mr Dibbs, and he pulled out of his pocket a handful

of gold coins which bore busts of a foreign-looking lady and gentleold, that is," he said "There was four thousand in the

little box I filled both my pockets, and took 'em back to Sydney when

ere picked up I didn't dare try in Australia 'That gold will

keep,' I says to land and find a entleman, you understand?"