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Within the Tides

CHAPTER XII
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You killed to steal--to steal! His brother and the clerks in the office know that he took sixty pounds with him to sea.

Sixty pounds in gold in a canvas bag.

He told me where they were.

The coxswain of the life-boat can swear to it that the drawers were all empty.

And you are such a fool that before you're half an hour ashore you change a sovereign to pay for a drink.


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