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Rh stay here, he will pay it to keep them from sending me to the Pen. It's the devil's own trap, and works both ways.”

“Who got the money, Bill?” asked the Auditor.

“Crawley, and old Martin, of the Golden Horn Mining Company. Crawley got most of it.”

“A plague of fat old gamblers,” said the Major, solemnly; “they are both as rich as they are mean, and as mean as they are crooked.”

At this moment the door opened and the Governor entered.