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"I almost think so," replied the Captain of Marines. He finished his apéritif and stared absently at the skylight overhead. "Pills, dear," said the First Lieutenant in honeyed accents, "we're afraid you are showing off before a stranger. There is only one penalty for that." "The Glory-hole," said the Captain of Marines, and hurled himself on the Staff Surgeon.
These were first moulded in the shape of great tumblers with an excessively ugly pattern printed on the sides, then softened in a glory-hole, and brought to a workman, who, by means of plyers and battledoor, elongated and shaped the neck, leaving a queer, ragged lip at the top. The decanter was then passed to Miselle's confidant, who struck off this lip with the edge of his plyers.
And that was his phrase he used it always: 'That ground has hardly been scratched! But when he fell out with old John Holman he well, there was an explosion underground and the glory-hole stope caved in. They cleaned it out afterwards and hunted around, but all the rich ore was gone; but I'm just as certain as I'm sitting here this minute the Colonel knew where there was more!
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