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98 Monsieur, that these treasures are lost because I gather them? Is it for myself—as you imagine—that I give myself all this trouble to collect this wealth? Who has told Do you think you that I do not make a good use of it all? Ido not know that suffering people and oppressed races exist on the earth—unhappy ones to console and victims to avenge? Do you not understand.

Captain Nemo checked himself, regretting, perhaps,that he had said so much.But I had guessed.Whatever the motives that had forced him to seek freedom on the ocean, after all he was a man at heart. His bosom throbbed for the sufferings of mankind, and his unlimited charity was extended to oppressed races, as well as to individuals.

And I understood then to whom these millions were forwarded by Captain Nemo, when the Mavéislus was in the neighbourhood of the Crete insurgents.