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| 27 | 118 | Also it lay no more than four View more quotes about hundred">hundred yards from the hiring yard on the wharves, to which I often went in seeking work. |
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| 27 | 115 | The intended purchaser had defaulted on his contract and the stone was to be stored over the winter, beside the quarry warehouse, until the following spring, when it was to be auctioned. |
| 27 | 116 | In the spring prices tend to be highest on such materials. |
| 27 | 117 | In virtue of the temporary commercial inertness of the stone, and its weight and cheapness, it had seemed to me to provide an ideal hiding place for the topaz. |
| 27 | 118 | Also it lay no more than four hundred yards from the hiring yard on the wharves, to which I often went in seeking work. |
| 27 | 119 | "None would expect that the topaz would be hidden in such a place," I speculated. |
| 27 | 120 | "Do you have it yet?" asked the fellow behind me, masked, with the sword. |
| 27 | 121 | He was a tall, spare man. |