Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 174
r John.There may be a cipher message in it, plainenough to those to whom she is going. Nay, I know no ciphers, I said hastily.Please, Your Lordship, let me have it. Andthen the lucky sixpence, hanging about my neckon a ribbon, came into my mind, and, being but achild, I took it off and held it… … THE SAILOR TOOK THE COIN AND SNAPPED IT IN HALVES. (see page 704., 703 704 THE LUCKY SIXPENCE [June, love you to have it because you have been kindto me. Evidently the idea took his fancy, perhaps be-cause sailors are superstitious; at any rate, he ac-cepted it with a smile. And what will you do…
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