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Then, even if they failed to secure him and the big stone, they would know the spot where he had discovered the ruby-mine." "Say, Mr. Buxton, you've hit the bull's eye," remarked Buck. "That's about the square-toed truth." "And that's why they threw the letter away when they had read it," cried Jack. "There was no hint of any such thing in it."
In the latter place he had been kept in strict confinement, and urged by threats to disclose the ruby-mine he had discovered. Hitherto his enemies had not proceeded to torture, though he had been daily expecting it. "And now they threaten me through you, Jack," concluded his father in an anxious voice Jack laughed, a quiet, steady, confident laugh. "They will threaten in vain, father," he said.
He knew that the great ruby expert was on that yacht a close captive, and that he had been carried by secret ways, through the jungle and over the hills, to the place where U Saw was all-powerful, and would do his utmost to wrest from Thomas Haydon the knowledge which the latter certainly possessed of a great ruby-mine. Very good.
"We shan't give way an inch. What do you think that half-caste said to me last thing before I was brought here to you?" He related the speech Saya Chone had made to him, and Mr. Haydon gave an uneasy movement of the shoulders. "Yes," he said, "they hope that you will plead with me, Jack, to give up the secret of the ruby-mine in order to save the pair of us."
"You still refuse to disclose the secret of the ruby-mine you found?" "I do." "It would be better, I think, for you to reconsider that decision," said the half-caste, in his cold, cruel voice. "There are ways, you know, of making people speak, however obstinate they may be." "You refer to torture, without doubt," said Mr.
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