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The Gold-Stealers

CHAPTER XXI
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Then she shut out the thought, and her heart sang: 'He loves me! He loves me! 'and there was joy in that no danger could destroy.
Detective Downy was in Waddy again on the following morning, his trip to Yarraman having been taken with the idea of interviewing Joe Rogers in prison and endeavouring to worm out of him some intelligence that might assist in the discovery of Ephraim Shine.

But Rogers either knew nothing or could not be persuaded to tell what he knew, so the effort was fruitless.
After hearing the story of the previous night, Downy sent for Billy Peterson and questioned him closely; but the boy insisted that he had told the truth, and was quite positive it was the searcher's voice he heard.

The detective was puzzled.
'You made a close hunt about the house ?' he said to Sergeant Monk.
'In every nook and corner.' 'Yet there must be something in this boy's yarn.

Shine is certainly in hiding somewhere near here.

If he had made a run for it he must have been seen, and we should have heard of him before this.


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