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03 - A Meeting of Mystery · Tarzan and the Golden Lion

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Speaker 1: Chapter three, a meeting of mystery. A rather attractive looking,
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Speaker 1: though over dressed, young woman was dining in a second
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Speaker 1: rate chop house in London. She was noticeable not so
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Speaker 1: much for her fine figure and coarsely beautiful face as
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Speaker 1: for the size and appearance of her companion, a large,
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Speaker 1: well proportioned man in the mid twenties, with such a
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Speaker 1: tremendous beard that it gave him the appearance of hiding
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Speaker 1: an ambush. He stood fully three inches over six feet.
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Speaker 1: His shoulders were broad, his chest deep, and his hips narrow.
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Speaker 1: His physique, his carriage, everything about him suggested indubitably the
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Speaker 1: trained athlete. The two were in close conversation, a conversation
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Speaker 1: that occasionally gave every evidence of bordering upon heated argument.
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Speaker 1: I tell you, said the man, that I do not
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Speaker 1: see what would need of the others. Why should they
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Speaker 1: share with us? Why divide in through six portions, that's
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Speaker 1: which you and I might have alone. It takes money
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Speaker 1: to carry the plan through, she replied, And neither you
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Speaker 1: nor I have any money. They have it, and they
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Speaker 1: will back us with it. Me for my knowledge and
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Speaker 1: you for your appearance and your strength. They searched for
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Speaker 1: you Esteban for two years, and now that they have
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Speaker 1: found you, I should not care to be in your
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Speaker 1: If you betrayed him, they would just as soon slit
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Speaker 1: your throat as not Esteban. If they no more than
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Speaker 1: thought they couldn't use you, now that you have all
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Speaker 1: the details of their plan. But if you should try
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Speaker 1: to take all the profit from them, she paused, shrugging
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Speaker 1: her shoulders, No, my dear, I love life too well
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Speaker 1: to join you in any such conspiracy as that. But
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Speaker 1: I tell you, Flora, we ought to get more out
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Speaker 1: of it than they want to give. You furnish all
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Speaker 1: the knowledge, and I take all the risk. Why shouldn't
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Speaker 1: we have more than I six the peace? Talk to
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Speaker 1: them yourself, then, Esteban, said the girl with a shrug.
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Speaker 1: But if you will take my advice, you will be
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Speaker 1: satisfied with what you are offered. Not only have I
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Speaker 1: the information without which they can do nothing, but I
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Speaker 1: found you into the bargain. Yet I do not ask
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Speaker 1: at all. I shall be perfectly satisfied with one sixth.
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Speaker 1: And I can assure you that if you do not
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Speaker 1: muddle the thing, one sixth of what you bring out
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Speaker 1: will be enough for any one of us for the
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Speaker 1: rest of his natural life. The man did not seem convinced,
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Speaker 1: and the young woman had a feeling that he would
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Speaker 1: bear watching. Really, she knew very little about him, and
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Speaker 1: had seen him in person only a few times since
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Speaker 1: her first discovery of him some two months before, upon
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Speaker 1: the screen of a London cinema house in a spectacular
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Speaker 1: feature in which he had played the role of a
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Speaker 1: Roman soldier of the Praetorian Guard. Here, his heroic size
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Speaker 1: and perfect physique had alone entitled him to consideration, For
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Speaker 1: his part was a minor one, and doubtless, of all
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Speaker 1: the thousands who saw him upon the silver sheet, Flora
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Speaker 1: Hawks was the only one who took more than a
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Speaker 1: passing interest in him, And her interest was aroused not
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Speaker 1: by his histrionic ability, but rather because for some two
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Speaker 1: years she and her confederates had been searching for such
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Speaker 1: a type as es Tobam. Moranda so admirably represented. To
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Speaker 1: find him in the flesh bade fair to prove difficult
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Speaker 1: of accomplishment, But after a month of seemingly fruitless searching,
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Speaker 1: she finally discovered him among a score of extre men
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Speaker 1: at the studio of one of London's lesser producing companies.
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Speaker 1: She needed no other credentials than her good looks to
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Speaker 1: form his acquaintance, and while that was ripening into intimacy,
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Speaker 1: she made no mention to him of the real purpose
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Speaker 1: of her association with him. That he was a Spaniard
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Speaker 1: and apparently of good family was evident to her, and
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Speaker 1: that he was unscrupulous was to be guessed by the
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Speaker 1: celerity with which he agreed to take part in the
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Speaker 1: shady transaction that had been conceived in the mind of
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Speaker 1: Flora Hawks, and the details of which had been perfect
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Speaker 1: by her and her four confederates. So therefore, knowing that
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Speaker 1: he was unscrupulous, she was aware that every precaution must
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Speaker 1: be taken to prevent him from taking advantage of the
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Speaker 1: knowledge of their plan that he must one day have
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Speaker 1: in detail, the key to which she, up to the
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Speaker 1: present moment, had kept entirely to herself, not even confiding
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Speaker 1: it to any one of the other four of her confederates.
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Speaker 1: They sat for a moment in silence, toying with the
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Speaker 1: empty glasses from which they had been drinking. Presently, she
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Speaker 1: looked up to find his gaze fixed upon her, and
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Speaker 1: an expression in his eyes that even a less sophisticated
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Speaker 1: woman than Flora, Hawks might readily have interpreted. Juca, make
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Speaker 1: me do anything you want, Flora, he said, for when
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Speaker 1: I am with you, I forget the goulds and think
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Speaker 1: only of that other reward, which you continually deny me,
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Speaker 1: but which one day I shall win. Love and business
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Speaker 1: do not mix, well, replied the girl. Wait until you
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Speaker 1: have succeeded in this work, as debon, and then we
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Speaker 1: may talk of love. Ju do not love me, he
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Speaker 1: whispered hoarsely. I know I have seen that each of
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Speaker 1: the others loves you. That is why I could hate them.
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Speaker 1: And if I thought that you loved one of them,
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Speaker 1: I could cut his heart out. Sometimes I have thought
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Speaker 1: that you did, first one of them and then another.
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Speaker 1: You are too familiar with them, Flora. I have seen
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Speaker 1: John Peebles squeeze your hand when he thought no one
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Speaker 1: was looking, and when you dance with Dick Thrunk, he
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Speaker 1: holds you too close and you dance cheek to cheek.
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Speaker 1: I told you I do not like it, Flora. And
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Speaker 1: one of these days I shall forget all about the
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Speaker 1: golds and think only of you, and then something will
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Speaker 1: happen and there will not be so many to divide.
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Speaker 1: The ingis I shall bring back from Africa, and Bluber
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Speaker 1: and Krasky are almost as bad. Perhaps Krasky is the
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Speaker 1: worst of all, for he is a good looking devil,
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Speaker 1: and I do not like the way in which you
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Speaker 1: cast sheep's eyes at him. The fire of growing anger
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Speaker 1: was leaping into the girl's eyes. With an angry gesture,
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Speaker 1: she silenced them. What business is it of yours, senior Miranda,
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Speaker 1: who I choose for my friends, or how I treat
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Speaker 1: them or how they treat me. I will have you
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Speaker 1: understand that I have known these men for years, while
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Speaker 1: I have known you but for a few weeks. And
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Speaker 1: if any has a right to dictate my behavior, which
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Speaker 1: thank god none does, it would be one of them
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Speaker 1: rather than you. His eyes blazed angrily. It is as
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Speaker 1: I thought, he cried, you'd love one of them. He
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Speaker 1: half rose from the table and leaned across it toward
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Speaker 1: her menacingly. Just let me find out which twenty of these,
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Speaker 1: and I will cut them into pieces. He ran his
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Speaker 1: fingers through his long black hair until it stood up
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Speaker 1: on end like the mane of an angry lion. His
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Speaker 1: eyes were blazing with a wipe that sent a chill
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Speaker 1: of dread through the girl's heart. He appeared a man
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Speaker 1: temporarily bereft of reason. If he were not a maniac,
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Speaker 1: he almost certainly looked one, and the girl was afraid
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Speaker 1: and realized that she must placate him. Come, Come, Esteban,
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Speaker 1: she whispered softly. There is no need for working yourself
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Speaker 1: into a towering rage over nothing. I have not said
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Speaker 1: that I loved one of these, nor have I said
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Speaker 1: that I do not love you. But I am not
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Speaker 1: used to being wooed in such a fashion. Perhaps your
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Speaker 1: Spanish Senorita is like it. But I am an English girl,
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Speaker 1: and if you love me, you will treat me as
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Speaker 1: an English lover would treat me. You have not said
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Speaker 1: that you loved one at these others. No, But on
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Speaker 1: the other hand, you have not said that you do
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Speaker 1: not love one of them. Tell me, Flora, which one
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Speaker 1: of them is it that you love. His eyes were
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Speaker 1: still blazing and his great frame trembling with suppressed passion.
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Speaker 1: I do not love any of them, Esteban, she replied,
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Speaker 1: Nor as yet do I love you. But I could, Esteban,
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Speaker 1: that much. I will tell you I could love you,
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Speaker 1: Esteban as I could never love another, but I shall
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Speaker 1: not permit myself to do so until after you have
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Speaker 1: returned and we are free to live where and how
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Speaker 1: we like. Then maybe, but even so, I do not promise.
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Speaker 1: Ju had bet the promise, he said, sullenly, though evidently
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Speaker 1: somewhat mollified. JU had bet the promise, Flora, but I
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Speaker 1: care nothing about the gold if I may not have
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Speaker 1: you also, hush, she cautioned. Here they come now, and
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Speaker 1: it is about time. They are fully a half hour late.
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Speaker 1: The man turned his eyes in the direction of her gaze,
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Speaker 1: and the two sat watching the approach of four men
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Speaker 1: who had just entered the chop house. Two of them
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Speaker 1: were evidently Englishmen, big meaty fellows of the middle class
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Speaker 1: who looked what they really were, former pugilists. The third,
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Speaker 1: Adolph Luber, was a short, fat German with a round
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Speaker 1: red face and a bull neck, and the other, the
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Speaker 1: youngest of the four, was by far the best looking.
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Speaker 1: His smooth face, clear complexion, and large dark eyes might
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Speaker 1: have themselves have proven sufficient grounds for Miranda's jealousy, but
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Speaker 1: supplementing these were a mop of wavy brown hair, the
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Speaker 1: figure of a Greek god, and the grace of a
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Speaker 1: Russian dancer, which in truth was what Karl Krasky was
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Speaker 1: when he chose to be other than a rogue. The
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Speaker 1: girl greeted the four pleasantly, while the Spaniard vouchsafed them
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Speaker 1: but a single surly nod. As they found their chairs
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Speaker 1: and seated themselves at the table, Hail, cried Peebles, pounding
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Speaker 1: the table to attract the attention of a waiter. Let
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Speaker 1: us have hail. The suggestion met with unanimous approval, and
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Speaker 1: as they waited for their drink, they spoke casually of
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Speaker 1: unimportant things, the heat, the circumstance that had delayed them,
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Speaker 1: the trivial occurrences since they had last met, throughout which
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Speaker 1: Esteban sat in sullen silence. But after the waiter returned
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Speaker 1: and they drank to Flora, with which ceremony it had
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Speaker 1: long been their accustomed to signalize each gathering, they got
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Speaker 1: down to business. Now, cried Peebles, pounding the table with
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Speaker 1: his mea fist. Here we are, and that's that we
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Speaker 1: have everything. Flora, the plans, the money, signor Miranda, now
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Speaker 1: jolly well, ready, old dear, for your part of it.
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Speaker 1: How much money have you asked, Flora is going to
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Speaker 1: take a lot of money, and there is no use
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Speaker 1: starting unless you have plenty to carry on with. People's
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Speaker 1: turn to Blueber. There, he said, pointing a pudgy finger
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Speaker 1: at him, is the bloomin treasure. He can tell you
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Speaker 1: how much we have, the fat rascal of a Dutchman,
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Speaker 1: Blueber smiled an oily smile and rubbed his fat palms together. Well,
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Speaker 1: he said, how much you'd think, miss Floto, we should
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Speaker 1: have not less than two thousand pounds to be on
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Speaker 1: the safe side, she replied quickly, Oi oi, exclaimed Blueber.
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Speaker 1: But that's a lot of money, two thousand pounds Oi oi.
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Speaker 1: The girl made a gesture of disgust. I told you
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Speaker 1: in the first place that I wouldn't have anything to
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Speaker 1: do with a bunch of cheap screws, and that until
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Speaker 1: you had enough money to carry the thing out properly,
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Speaker 1: I would not give you the maps and directions without
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Speaker 1: which you cannot hope to reach the vaults where there
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Speaker 1: is stored enough gold to buy this whole, tight little island.
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Speaker 1: If half that what I have heard them say about
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Speaker 1: it is true, you can go along and spend your
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Speaker 1: own money, but you've got to show me that you
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Speaker 1: have at least two thousand pounds to spend before I
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Speaker 1: give up the information that will make you the richest
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Speaker 1: men in the world. The blood has got the money,
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Speaker 1: growned Throg. BlimE me, if I know what he's beefing about.
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Speaker 1: He can't help it, growled the Russian. It's a racial characteristic.
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Speaker 1: Bloomber would try to do down the marriage license clerk.
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Speaker 1: If you are going to get married, Oh well, sighed Bloomber.
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Speaker 1: For why should we spend more money than is necessary.
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Speaker 1: If he can do it for one thousand pounds, so
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Speaker 1: much the better, certainly, snapped the girl. And if I
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Speaker 1: don't take but one thousand, that is all you will
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Speaker 1: have to spend. But you've got to have the two
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Speaker 1: thousand in case of emergencies, and from what I have
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Speaker 1: seen of that country, you're likely to run up against
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Speaker 1: more emergencies than anything else. Holy Oi, cried Blueber. He's
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Speaker 1: got the money, all right, said Peebles. Now let's get busy.
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Speaker 1: He may have it, but I want to see it first,
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Speaker 1: replied the girl. Fought you think I carry all that
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Speaker 1: money around in my pockets? Cried Blueber. Can't you take
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Speaker 1: our word for it, grumbled, throc you are a nice
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Speaker 1: bunch of crooks to ask me that, she replied, laughing
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Speaker 1: in the face of the burly ruffians. I'll take her
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Speaker 1: word for it, though, if he tells me that you
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Speaker 1: have it, and that it is in such shape that
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Speaker 1: it can and will be used to pay all the
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Speaker 1: necessary expenses of our expedition, I will believe him. Peebles
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Speaker 1: and Throcks scowled angrily, and Miranda's eyes closed to two narrow,
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Speaker 1: nasty slits as he directed his gaze upon the Russian Blueber.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, was affected not at all. The more
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Speaker 1: he was insulted, the better. Apparently he liked it. Toward
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Speaker 1: one who treated him with consideration or respect, he would
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Speaker 1: have become arrogant. While he fawned upon the hand that
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Speaker 1: struck him. Krasky alone smiled a self satisfied smile that
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Speaker 1: set the blood of the spaniard boiling. Blueber has the money, Flora,
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Speaker 1: he said, each of us has contributed his share. We'll
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Speaker 1: make Blueber treasurer, because we know that he will squeeze
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Speaker 1: the last farthing until it shrieks before he will let
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Speaker 1: it escape him. It is our plan now to set
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Speaker 1: out from London. In payers, he drew a map from
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Speaker 1: his pocket, and, unfolding it, spread it out upon the
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Speaker 1: table before them. With his finger he indicated a point X.
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Speaker 1: Here we will meet, and here we will equip our expedition.
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Speaker 1: Blueber and Miranda will go first, then Peebles and Throck.
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Speaker 1: By the time that you and I arrive, everything will
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Speaker 1: be in shape for moving immediately into the interior, where
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Speaker 1: we shall establish a permanent camp off the beaten track
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Speaker 1: and as near our objective as possible. Miranda will disport
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Speaker 1: himself behind his whiskers until he is ready to set
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Speaker 1: out upon the final stage of his long journey. I
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Speaker 1: understand that he is well schooled in the part that
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Speaker 1: he is to play, and that he can depict the
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Speaker 1: character to perfection. As he will only have ignorant natives
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Speaker 1: and wild beasts to deceive, it should not tax his
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Speaker 1: history onic ability too greatly. There was a veiled note
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Speaker 1: of sarcasm in the soft, drawling tone that caused the
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Speaker 1: black eyes of the Spaniard to gleam wickedly, do I understand,
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Speaker 1: asked Miranda, his soft tone belying his angry scowl, that
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Speaker 1: you and miss Hawk's travel alone to X you do,
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Speaker 1: unless your understanding is poor, replied the Russian. The Spaniard
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Speaker 1: half rose from the table and leaned across it menacingly
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Speaker 1: toward Krasky. The girl who was sitting next to him
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Speaker 1: seized his coat. None of that, she said, dragging him
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Speaker 1: back into his chair. There has been too much of
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Speaker 1: it among you already, and if there is any more,
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Speaker 1: I shall cut you all and seek more congenial companions
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Speaker 1: from my expedition. Yes, cut it out. Here we are
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Speaker 1: and that's that, exclaimed Pebles belligerently. John's right rumbled Throc
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Speaker 1: in his deep bass, and I'm here to back him up.
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Speaker 1: Flora's right, and I'm here to back her up. And
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Speaker 1: if there is any more of it, BlimE me if
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Speaker 1: I don't bash a couple of you prittians. He looked
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Speaker 1: first at Miranda and then at Krasky, now soothed blueber
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Speaker 1: let's all shake hands and be good friends. Right out,
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Speaker 1: cried Peebles. That's the talk. Give him your hand. Estebon,
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Speaker 1: come karle bury the hatchet. We can't start in on
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Speaker 1: this thing with no animosities. And here we are, and
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Speaker 1: that's that. The Russian, feeling secure in his position with Flora,
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Speaker 1: and therefore, in a magnanimous mood, extended his hand across
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Speaker 1: the table toward the Spaniard for a moment. Estebon hesitated,
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Speaker 1: Come man, shake, growled Throc. Or you can go back
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Speaker 1: to your job as an extra man, blimey, and we'll
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Speaker 1: find some one else to do your work and divvy
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Speaker 1: the swag with. Suddenly, the dark countenance of the Spaniard
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Speaker 1: was lighted by a pleasant smile. He extended his hand
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Speaker 1: quickly and clasped Krasky. Forgive me, he said, I am
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Speaker 1: not tempered, but I mean nothing. Miss Hooks is right.
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Speaker 1: We must all be friends, and here's my hand on it, Kraskey.
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Speaker 1: As far as I am concerned, good, said Krasky. And
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Speaker 1: I am sorry if I offended you. But he forgot
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Speaker 1: that the other was an actor, and if he could
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Speaker 1: have seen into the depths of that dark soul, he
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Speaker 1: would have shuddered once. Now that we are all good friends,
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Speaker 1: said Blueber, rubbing his hands together unctuously, why not arrange
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Speaker 1: for them we shall commence starting to finish up everything's
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Speaker 1: miss Flora. She gives me the map in her directions
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Speaker 1: when we start commenting, immediately, luve me a pencil, Karl,
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Speaker 1: said the girl, And when the man had handed her one,
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Speaker 1: she searched out a spot upon the map, some distance
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Speaker 1: into the interior from X, where she drew a tiny circle.
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Speaker 1: This is, oh, she said. When we all reach here,
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Speaker 1: you shall have the final directions. And not before Blueber
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Speaker 1: threw up his hands, Oi, miss Flora, fought, you think
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Speaker 1: we spend two thousand pounds to buy a pig in
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Speaker 1: a poke? Oh? Oi, you wouldn't ask us to do that.
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Speaker 1: If we must see everything, we must know everything before
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Speaker 1: we spend van farding. Yes, and here we are, And
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Speaker 1: that's that, roared John Peebles, striking the table with his fist.
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Speaker 1: The girl rose leisurely from her seat. Oh very well,
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Speaker 1: she said, with a shrug. If you feel that way
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Speaker 1: about it, we might as well call it all off.
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Speaker 1: Oh wits weit's, miss Flora, cried Blueber, rising hurriedly. Don't
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Speaker 1: be excited. But can't you see ifre we are two
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Speaker 1: thousand pounds is a lot of money, and we are
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Speaker 1: good business men. We shouldn't be spending it all without
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Speaker 1: getting nothing's fought it. I am not asking you to
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Speaker 1: spend it and get nothing for it, replied the girl tartly.
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Speaker 1: But if any one has got to trust any one
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Speaker 1: else in this outfit, it is you who are going
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Speaker 1: to trust me. If I give you all the information
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Speaker 1: I have. There is nothing in the world that can
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Speaker 1: perment you from going ahead and leaving me out in
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Speaker 1: the cold. And I don't intend that that shall happen.
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Speaker 1: But we are not gone offs, Miss Flora, insisted the
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Speaker 1: jew Viv nothink for one minute of cheating you. You're
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Speaker 1: not angels either, Blueber any of you, retorted the girl.
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Speaker 1: If you want to go ahead with this, you've got
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Speaker 1: to do it in my way, and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be there at the finish to see that I get
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Speaker 1: what is coming to me. You've taken my word for
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Speaker 1: it up to the present time that I had the dope,
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Speaker 1: and now you've got to take it the rest of
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Speaker 1: the way or all bets are off. What good would
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Speaker 1: it do me to go over into a ballely jungle
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Speaker 1: and suffer all the hardships that we are bound to
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Speaker 1: suffer dragging you along with me if I were not
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Speaker 1: going to be able to deliver the goods when I
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Speaker 1: got there. And I am not such a SOFTI to
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Speaker 1: think that I could get away with it with a
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Speaker 1: bunch of bandits like you if I tried to put
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Speaker 1: anything of that kind over on you. And as long
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Speaker 1: as I do play straight, I feel perfectly safe. For
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Speaker 1: I know that either Estebon or Karl will look after me.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know but what the rest of you
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Speaker 1: would too? Is it a go or isn't it? Fat
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Speaker 1: John Foto you and Dick think, asked Blueber, addressing the
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Speaker 1: two ex prize fighters. Karl, I know he will think
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Speaker 1: whatever Flora thinks, eh, fat law me, said Throc. I
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Speaker 1: never was much on a hand to trust to nobody
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Speaker 1: unless I've had to. But it looks as though we
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Speaker 1: have to trust Flora, say me, said John Peebles, if
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Speaker 1: you try any funny work, Flora, He made a significant
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Speaker 1: movement with his finger across his throat. I understand, John,
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Speaker 1: she said with a smile. And I know that you
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Speaker 1: would do it as quickly for two pounds as you
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Speaker 1: would for two thousand. But you are all agreed then
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Speaker 1: to carry on according to my plans, you too, Karl
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Speaker 1: the Russian nodded. What daver though, they say, goes with me?
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Speaker 1: And so the gentle little Coteriede discussed their plans in
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Speaker 1: so far as they could each minutest detailed that would
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Speaker 1: be necessary to place them all at the O which
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Speaker 1: the girl had drawn upon the map. End of chapter