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The President

CHAPTER XIX
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The weight of the gold will force down the slab when undermined.

I'll open that vault like lifting the cover of a chest, only the cover will drop from the bottom instead of lifting from the top.

The minute that slab of steel drops six inches, the sacks of gold will begin sliding into our tunnel of their own accord.

You needn't worry about my part of the job; I can take thirty millions out of the vault if you can get them to the mouth of the drain." "I can get them to the mouth of the drain," responded Storri confidently, "and another thirty with them.

The real limit to our operations is the yacht itself.


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