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The Boss of the Lazy Y

CHAPTER VIII
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Ezela offered no objections; on the other hand, when Taggart came back she told me to get some of the treasure too.

Taggart hadn't taken enough to miss; there were millions of dollars' worth of gold and diamonds in the room, where they'd raised a kind of an altar, and I had my choice.
"I took some of the gold, but what attracted me--not because it was pretty, but because I saw in a minute that it was valuable--was a hideous image about six inches high.

I had had an idea all along that Queza had been lying about the diamonds, but when I saw the image I knew he'd told the truth.

There were about a hundred diamonds on the image, stuck all around it, the image itself being gold.

The diamonds ran from a carat to seven or eight carats, and there was no question about them being the real thing.


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