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Rh ' "It would come to fifty thousand apiece," said I.

' "But how can we gain your freedom? You know very well that you ask an impossibility."

' "Nothing of the sort," I answered. "I have thought it all out to the last detail. The only bar to our escape is that we can get no boat fit for the voyage, and no provisions to last us for so long a time. There are plenty of little yachts and yawls at Calcutta or Madras which would serve our turn well. Do you bring one over. We shall engage to get aboard her by night, and if you will drop us on any part of the Indian coast you will have done your part of the bargain."

' "If there were only one," he said.

' "None or all," I answered. "We have sworn it. The four of us must always act together."

' "You see, Morstan," said he, "Small is a