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The Adventures of Captain Horn

CHAPTER XIII
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Look here: I scraped that spot with my knife.

I wanted to test it before I showed it to you.

See how it shines! I could easily cut into it.

I believe it is virgin gold, not hardened with any alloy." "And that mound full of it!" cried Mrs.Cliff.
"I can't say about that," said the captain.

"But if the gold is no deeper than my arm went down into it, and all pure metal at that, why--bless my soul!--it would make anybody crazy to try to calculate how much it is worth." "Now, then," exclaimed Mrs.Cliff, "whom does all this gold belong to?
We have found it, but whose is it ?" "That is a point to be considered," said the captain.


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