I sat up in my big lounge chair.

“Didn't Hardman make a fight for them; if he didn't find the

treasure--didn't he squeal?”

Barclay turned about, drawing the curtain close behind him.

“And be laughed out of the high-brow bunch that he was trying to get

into?... I said old Nute was a crook, but I didn't say he was a fool.”

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