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"How long have you lived off there?" he asked, as he jerked his finger towards the shore. "A good many years." "Did anything strange ever happen there?" Gaspard felt his heart contract again, as it did when Brigond's hand touched his shoulder. "Nothing strange is known." A vicious joy came into Brigond's face. His fingers opened and shut. "Safe, by the holy heaven!" he grunted.
It's only forty leagues or so from here." His fingers ran here and there on the map. "Yes, yes," he continued, "it's so, but he hasn't placed the reef right. Ah, here is how Brigond's ship went down! There's a needle of rock in the bay. It isn't here." Gobal handed the chart over. "I can't go with you, but I take your word; I can say no more. If you cheat me I'll kill you; that's all."
Gobal come to me and told me all there was to tell. I said that it was a true story, for Pretty Pierre told me once he saw Brigond's ship go down in the bay; but he would not say how, or why, or where. Pierre would not lie in a thing like that, and " "Why didn't he get the gold himself?" "What is money to him? He is as a gipsy. To him the money is cursed. He said so.
"How long have you lived off there?" he asked, as he jerked his finger towards the shore. "A good many years." "Did anything strange ever happen there?" Gaspard felt his heart contract again, as it did when Brigond's hand touched his shoulder. "Nothing strange is known." A vicious joy came into Brigond's face. His fingers opened and shut. "Safe, by the holy heaven!" he grunted.
Gobal come to me and told me all there was to tell. I said that it was a true story, for Pretty Pierre told me once he saw Brigond's ship go down in the bay; but he would not say how, or why, or where. Pierre would not lie in a thing like that, and " "Why didn't he get the gold himself?" "What is money to him? He is as a gipsy. To him the money is cursed. He said so.
It's only forty leagues or so from here." His fingers ran here and there on the map. "Yes, yes," he continued, "it's so, but he hasn't placed the reef right. Ah, here is how Brigond's ship went down! There's a needle of rock in the bay. It isn't here." Gobal handed the chart over. "I can't go with you, but I take your word; I can say no more. If you cheat me I'll kill you; that's all."
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