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THE TREASURE-HUNT—FLINT’S POINTER
“JIM,” SAID SILVER WHEN WE WERE ALONE, “IF I SAVED YOUR LIFE, YOU SAVED mines; and I'll not forget it. I seen the doctor waving you to run for it-with the tail of my eye, I did; and I seen you say no, as hearing. Jim, that's one to you. This is the first glint of hope I had since the attack failed, and I owe it you. And now, Jim, we’re to go in for this here treasure-hunting, with sealed orders too, and I don’t like it; and you and me must stick close, back to back like, and we’ll save our necks in spite o’ fate and fortune.”
Just then a man hailed us from the fire that breakfast was ready, and we were soon seated here and there about the sand over biscuit and fried junk. They had lit a fire fit to roast an ox, and it was now grown so hot that they
