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The Golden Fleece

CHAPTER VI
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The aperture in the rock through which it trickled bore the appearance of having been recently opened; fragments were lying near it that seemed to have been just broken off.

The bed of the little stream was entirely free from moss or weeds; and after proceeding a short distance it dwindled and disappeared, either sucked up in vapor by the torrid air, or absorbed into the dusty soil.

Manifestly, it was a recent creation.
"And, to be sure, why not ?" ejaculated Freeman.

"There was an earthquake last night, which swallowed up the spring in the Trednokes' garden: probably that same earthquake brought this stream to light.

It vanished there, to reappear here.


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