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 known and when the former's accomplice endeavored to secure the title to "Old Ulster," he learned that the mine was already in the hands of a new company.

Mills secretly regretted having consigned the document so hastily to the flames; and could he have seen it, as Dr. Herschel, the next occupant of that room in the hotel at Kingston, drew it from the stove, every letter distinct, he would have known that in that asbestos-like sheet was a rarer treasure than money or jewels.