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The Treasure of Heaven

CHAPTER V
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If it is ever sold with its contents 'to defray expenses,' nothing will be found in it but some unmarked clothes.

And so far as all those who know me are concerned, every trace of me ends at Southampton.

Beyond Southampton there is a blank, into which David Helmsley, the millionaire, has vanished.

And David Helmsley, the tramp, sits here in his place!" The little brown bird preened its wing, and glanced at him sideways intelligently, as much as to say: "I quite understand! You have become one of us,--a wanderer, taking no thought for the morrow, but letting to-morrow take thought for the things of itself.

There is a bond of sympathy between me, the bird, and you, the man--we are brothers!" A sudden smile illumined his face.


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