Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 596
she was about to put aroundhis neck. Catching her hands hedrew his pistol and threatened toshoot her, but let her slip to theground. She ran across the road,and disappeared into the jungle. He had lived in India for so manyyears that he knew what this meant.The woman was a Thug, and thefigures, her… … After making a little safe, with a lock of the kind he hadjust invented, he took it to Wall Street and chained it se-curely to a lamppost. Inside he put a thousand dollars,and placed a sign on top announcing that any one whocould open the lock, or in any other way get at the thou-sand dollars,…
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