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The Lair of the White Worm

CHAPTER XIII--OOLANGA'S HALLUCINATIONS
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Being unscrupulous and stealthy--and a savage--he looked to dishonest means.

He saw plainly enough that Lady Arabella was making a dead set at his master, and he was watchful of the slightest sign of anything which might enhance this knowledge.

Like the other men in the house, he knew of the carrying to and fro of the great chest, and had got it into his head that the care exercised in its porterage indicated that it was full of treasure.

He was for ever lurking around the turret-rooms on the chance of making some useful discovery.

But he was as cautious as he was stealthy, and took care that no one else watched him.
It was thus that the negro became aware of Lady Arabella's venture into the house, as she thought, unseen.


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