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burnt to the edge of the water, and to the duration to write the letter he was
afloat on the ocean with five of his/her sailors in a small boat."
"How long was this ago? I mean when it was the letter been together."
"Almost two years ago--of November after he sailed."
"He is due to perish" then clearly says the superintendent, with
a feeling of the satisfaction. "However, I suppose that Your mother is happy to
you/he/she has spoken to him. Is it that all you have to tell me?"
"No, gentleman", said Robert that audaciously looks in front of his/her first
employer. "My father added in his/her letter that few before sailing him
deposited with you the sum of five thousand dollars, to be given to mine
mother in case he never returned."
Then the worse ones had come! The corpses had revealed the secret what the
hoped superintendent would be never known. He was threatened with downfall.
He didn't have anybody means to pay the deposit unless sacrificing his
ownership, and it was doubtful if even then he were completely able
to invent him/it. If Robert possessed his/her recognition he would have anybody
defends to do. This that he has to verify before committing him.
"Admitted that this history to be true", he said, in a mean-mocking tone,
"Is you, clearly prepared to show me my receipt for the money?"
"What my father transported with him. He didn't send him/it with the
letter."
The whole trust of superintendent returned. He didn't feel him more afraid,
since every evidence of the deposit it was undoubtedly to the bottom of the sea
with the captain to bad result. He resolved to deny together the trust.
"Rushton", he said, "I have patiently listened to what you had to say,
and in return I respond that in the whole progress of life mine that I never have
known of a more attempt with the open face to fraud. In this case you have
selected the wrong client."
"Thing!" Exclaimed Robert, not accrediting really the testimony of his/her ears;
"You mean to deny that my father deposited five thousand dollars with
You few before sailing on his/her last trip?"
"I certainly do, and in the most deprived terms of the necessary requisite. It had such state the