In Search of an Unknown Race — page 143: what you’re looking at

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VAN. 131 that the sum received from their sale will give you a tolerable start in life. This share of my wealth, small as itis, is your inheritance, if so you choose to call it.” Van tried to speak, but somehow the right words would notcome. Truth to tell, he was so overpowered with all he had seen and heard as to be quite incapable of any connected speech. ‘‘Never mind, Cousin Van—we understand,” laughed Ninada, who easily comprehended the reasons for Van’s awkward silence. And then after a little more talk the trio returned to the upper air. They did not know ¢hen that Flores, concealed in the subterranean passage leading from the treasure room to the garden, had seen and heard all that had passed. It was not unnatural to suppose that while the pro- posed journey from Itambez would not be nearly as lengthy, it would not be without dangers and hardships © corresponding to those encountered by Van and his companions. Taking this fact into consideration, Van felt certain of one or the other of two things, either Mr. Briscoe actually shared the belief in the prediction which had been made regarding the threatened danger to his daugh- ter unless she left Itambez before her sixteenth birth- day, or else he was moved by some more practical and weightier reasons, only known to himself. Noth- ing else—even his avowed purpose of giving Ninada the social and educational advantages mentioned—could account for subjecting his daughter to a journey fraught with so much possible peril. But I need hardly say that the prospect of acting as Eomicbooks: Gc