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Updated: May 15, 2025
That the gold-stealing is still going on. I'll tell Holden as much, an' promise to watch, an' watch, like a cat, if he'll only send me below. 'Yes, yes; we can persuade him. I wonder we did not think of this before. ''Twas young Dick Haddon put me up to it, with some yarn of his about a detective. 'Bless the boy! he is unique the worst and the best I have ever known. Johnnie, how dare you?
Waddy confidently expected the gold-stealing case to culminate in the discovery of a particularly atrocious murder, and Ephraim Shine was selected as the probable victim.
'Do you think the gold-stealing has stopped? The manager looked up sharply. 'Do you know anything? 'I know what the men hint at; nothing more. If they could speak straight they wouldn't do it. 'Well, to tell you God's truth, Hardy, I believe we are still losing gold. 'Send me below, then, an' by Heaven I'll spot the true thieves if they're not more cunning than the devil himself.
He had been arrested for gold-stealing. It was a clear case. Hundreds of complaints had been made. Dozens of suspects had been shadowed, until a quick-witted detective intuitively fastened the responsibility on the court interpreter, who, on the instant of arrest, had become dumb.
He loved her, he told himself, but was no whimpering fool to abase himself at the feet of a woman who was careless, or might be even worse pitiful. Joe Rogers reserved his defence and was committed to stand his trial at the forthcoming sessions in about a fortnight's time, charged with gold-stealing, wounding Harry Hardy, and shooting at Trooper Casey. Harry returned to his work.
Rogers, sitting on the edge of his bunk, handcuffed and leg-ironed, gazed sullenly at the detective. 'Well, he said, 'an' now you've got me, what's the charge? 'A trifle of gold-stealing, replied Downy, 'and this, indicating Casey's bleeding head. 'To say nothing of the murder of your accomplice. Rogers blanched and glared at the detective, his face contorted and his eyes big with terror.
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