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King Solomon’s Mines

CHAPTER II
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He told me he was bound to make his fortune somehow, or try to; so he might as well have a fling for the diamonds.' "'Oh!' I said; 'wait a bit, Jim; will you take a note to your master, Jim, and promise not to give it to him till you reach Inyati ?' which was some hundred miles off.
"'Yes, Baas.' "So I took a scrap of paper, and wrote on it, 'Let him who comes.

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climb the snow of Sheba's left breast, till he reaches the nipple, on the north side of which is Solomon's great road.' "'Now, Jim,' I said, 'when you give this to your master, tell him he had better follow the advice on it implicitly.

You are not to give it to him now, because I don't want him back asking me questions which I won't answer.

Now be off, you idle fellow, the wagon is nearly out of sight.' "Jim took the note and went, and that is all I know about your brother, Sir Henry; but I am much afraid--" "Mr.Quatermain," said Sir Henry, "I am going to look for my brother; I am going to trace him to Suliman's Mountains, and over them if necessary, till I find him, or until I know that he is dead.


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