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Updated: May 13, 2025
That'll fix you." "Business first," cut in Buck Rutherford. "That's right, Dave," agreed the owner of the horse ranch. "How about that gunnysack? Where did you hide it?" Dingwell played for time. He had not the least intention of telling, but if he held the enemy in parley some of his friends might pass that way. "What gunnysack, Hal? Jee-rusalem, how my head aches!"
The silence that followed was unbroken for some seconds, and then Sam Hicks stepped a pace forward. "Jee-rusalem!" he said, "that was a close call. I don't know how you felt, boys, but it seemed as if all the sand had gone out of me, and I weakened so that my knees have not done shaking yet." The men, accustomed as they were to danger, were all equally affected.
"But there is gold at Minóok, you're sure? You've seen it?" The Father Superior locked away the packet and stood up. But the Boy was bending down fascinated, listening at the white lips. "There is gold there?" he repeated. Out of the gulf came faintly back like an echo: "Plenty o' gold there plenty o' gold." "Jee-rusalem!"
They squeezed one at a time through the narrow break Dick had made in the end of it, into a high, pitch-dark cave that smelt unexplainably of wood-smoke, Dick standing just inside the gap to bold the lantern for them and help them through continuing to stand there after Tess had entered last. "Jee-rusalem!" he exclaimed. "This is where I lose out!"
A ledge ran down from the point where Hunting Dog was standing to the mouth of the fissure. "Jee-rusalem, chief!" Ben exclaimed. "That air just made for us we could not have found a better, not if we had sarched for a year. But I reckon we shall have to clear the place a bit before we take the critters down." Two axes were taken from one of the pack-horses.
But at last he reverted to Wimblehurst again. "You got to be in London when these things are in hand. Down here ! "Jee-rusalem!" he cried. "Why did I plant myself here? Everything's done. The game's over. Here's Lord Eastry, and he's got everything, except what his lawyers get, and before you get any more change this way you'll have to dynamite him and them.
Jee-rusalem! but she wer goin' to have the cap'en up on court-martial, an' the steward tarred and feathered, an' the Lord knows what! Then, too, ther wer that b'y of hern, squalling like a frog in a fit, the durned young imp, I'd lief have skinned him!
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