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Gilling took the message from Sir Cresswell and thoughtfully read it over. Then he handed it back and motioned the old seaman to look at Spurge.
"I think you ought to know what this man has just told us, sir," he said. "We've got a story from him that exactly fits in with what Chatfield told Mr. Vickers when the _Pike_ returned to carry him off yesterday. Chatfield, you'll remember, said that the gold he'd withdrawn from the bank is hidden somewhere -- well, there's no doubt that this man Zachary Spurge knows where it is hidden. It's there now -- and the presumption is, of course, that these people on the _Pike_ will certainly come in to this coast -- somehow! -- to get it. So in that case -- eh?"