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Everything Falco could think of in the way of clothing, furniture and art objects was showered on me and my slightest hint of a wish was quickly gratified. Also Falco supplied me a lavish allowance of cash. Therefore I could gratify any whim. Besides, my amulet-bag was intact and had in it all the gems which Agathemer had originally placed there, except only the emerald Bulla had sold for me.
I collected the following extinct shells, of which the Turritella was in great numbers: Bulla cosmophila, G.B. Sowerby. 2. Pleurotoma subaequalis, G.B. Sowerby. 3. Fusus cleryanus, d'Orbigny, "Voyage Pal." Triton leucostomoides, G.B. Sowerby. 5. Venus, probably a distinct species, but very imperfect. 7. Dentalium majus, G.B. Sowerby. This fine island is about one hundred miles in length.
At the first opportunity, I revisited the outlaws' camp, with the usual precautions, and found Bulla idle and genial. I told him I needed cash, all the cash I could get, and had an emerald I thought would be worth a noble store of gold and silver coin. "Show it to me!" he commanded. I took out my sheath-knife, ripped the emerald out of its hiding-place and passed it to him. He conned it.
Certain slave-dealers, landing a cargo of slaves at Brundisium, and having with them a very beautiful boy of great value, fearing lest the custom-house officers should lay hands upon him, put upon him the bulla and the purple-edged robe that free-born lads were wont to wear. The deceit was not discovered.
"I am perfectly willing to explain," laughed Bulla, looking more formidable when he smiled or laughed than when expressionless. "We are no cheap bandits to rob market-women, poor farmers, ordinary travellers or such small fry. We angle for bigger fish. We bide our time. We are here to make three big strokes and then a quick disappearance.
Beamish, Bulla, Coburn, Henri, the manager here, and the two men they spoke of, Morton and Archer that makes seven. That would give them 12,000 a year each. It's still jolly well worth while." "Worth while? I should just say so." Merriman lay silently pondering the idea. Presently he spoke again. "Of course those figures of yours are only guesswork."
By some secret method they were conveyed to Henri when his lorry-driving took him into the city, and he in turn brought them to the clearing and handed them over to Coburn. Captain Beamish and Bulla would then take charge of them, probably hiding them on the Girondin in some place which would defy a surprise Customs examination.
Another drawing might pass for the same face in childhood, with parched and feverish lips, but with much sweetness in the loose, short-waisted childish dress, with necklace and bulla, and in the daintily bound hair.
They passed round the deckhouse and Hilliard could not hear the reply. When they returned Captain Beamish was speaking. " thinks it would about double our profits," Hilliard heard him say. "He suggests a second depot on the other side, say at Swansea. That would look all right on account of the South Wales coalfields." "But we're getting all we can out of the old hooker as it is," Bulla objected.
We could double our income with another ship and another depot. And Swansea seems to me the place." "Bulla and I were just talking of that before you came aboard," the captain answered. "You know we have considered that again and again, and we have always come to the conclusion that we are pushing the thing strongly enough." "Our organization has improved since then.
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