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27 MORIN, THE FISHERMAN
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When Rosa Varona regained1 consciousness sufficiently2 to understand what had happened she proved herself a person of no little self-control. She went to pieces for a moment, as was only natural, but O'Reilly soon succeeded in calming her. Nor did he have to remind her twice that this was no time for weakness or hysteria; it was she, in fact, who first voiced the fear that Cobo dead was scarcely less of a menace than Cobo alive.
"What are we going to do with him?" she inquired.
Jacket, too, appreciated the dangers of the situation. "We must get rid of him quickly," said he, "for his men are close by; he will be missed and there will be a search."
"I don't intend to make him a present of that treasure," O'Reilly said, grimly. "It is our only salvation3."
"But how are we going to hide him?" Jacket inquired. "One might as well try to conceal4 a church; oxen couldn't hoist5 him out of that hole."
"Precisely6! He has made our work easy for us. We can't take more than a small part of the money with us, anyhow; the rest will have to lie here until the war is over. Well! We shall leave Cobo on guard over what remains7!"
Jacket was immensely pleased with this idea, once he had grasped it. "What could be better?" he cried. "The man's spirit is evil enough to frighten people away and we will drop stones upon him, so that he can learn the taste of his own medicine. It suits me exactly to think of Colonel Cobo standing8 on his head in a hole in the ground for the rest of eternity
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