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The Adventures of Captain Horn

CHAPTER XIII
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They would drink themselves to death, and it would bring nothing but misery upon them.

The Incas, in their way, were good, civilized people, and it stands to reason that the treasure they hid away should go to other good, civilized people when the Incas had departed from the face of the earth.

Think of the good that could be done with such wealth, should it fall into the proper hands! Think of the good to the poor people of Peru, with the right kind of mission work done among them! I tell you all that the responsibility of this discovery is as great as its value in dollars.

What do you think about it, Edna ?" "I think this," said Miss Markham: "so far as any of us have anything to do with it, it belongs to Captain Horn.

He discovered it, and it is his." "The whole of it ?" cried Ralph.
"Yes," said his sister, firmly, "the whole of it, so far as we are concerned.


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