This is the one time I have ever heard a Christian leech speak truth of any disease . Thereupon the people beat me , but a merciful woman said : `` Do not kill him now . Push him into our Castle with his Plague , and if , as he says , it will abate on the fifteenth day , we can kill him then . '' Why not ? They drove me across the drawbridge of the Castle , and fled back to their booths . Thus I came to be alone with the treasure . ' ` But did you know this was all going to happen just right ? ' said Una . ` My Prophecy was that I should be a Lawgiver to a People of a strange land and a hard speech . I knew I should not die . I washed my cuts . I found the tide-well in the wall , and from Sabbath to Sabbath I dove and dug there in that empty , Christian-smelling fortress . Hé ! I spoiled the Egyptians ! Hé ! If they had only known ! I drew up many good loads of gold , which I loaded by night into my boat . There had been gold-dust too , but that had been washed out by the tides . ' ` Did n't you ever wonder who had put it there ? ' said Dan , stealing a glance at Puck 's calm , dark face under the hood of his gown .
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Egyptians Hé Puck Una disease leech night right stealing tide-well