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They fished out a single leather satchel from the depths, and Oliver carried it to the table

“Open it,” Trevor said, excited

Oliver opened it There were a handful of gold sovereigns shiular flat item wrapped in oilcloth

Sans: 1905 “Talk about old, I’ll bet they’re worth close to three hundred times their face value”

“Hardly the half ,” Oliver said

Trevor et to keep any of it?”

“Sorry, lad,” Oliver said “Stolen Which oes back to the Crown” He lifted a corner of the oilcloth, his brows going up He looked at Re about British irony earlier in the evening?” He re them stacks upon stacks of white one-hundred-pound notes fro plates “I daresay, thisof Irony”

“Why?” Trevor asked “That’s themoney, isn’t it? Half a million?”

“Worthless,” Oliver said, nodding at the stacks of ht’ve all been avoided, had the journal specified the ns”

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IT WAS LATE by the time Sam and Remi made it to bed

Reht”

“Still, quite the find Just thinking about what ie Oren’s hands, had Isaac Bell not stopped hiles the mind”

“I’ll bet those stolen engraving plates are why they decided to hire someone with Isaac Bell’s expertise” She scooted up onto her elbows and kissed hio”

“I do have one question, Reure out the money was hidden in the piano?”