The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 97: what you’re looking at

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go The Indestructible Story. to meet him at the bar of God within a year. Before a twelve-month both were dead. The reader would weary were I to enumerate each one who suffered. Let me but mention lovely Mary, queen of the Scots. Lady Jane Grey, Charles Edward, the “Pre- tender,” Charles I., Joan of Arc. Each was in turn the possessor of this piece of silver, and each in turn sulf- fered. It is also said that Henry VIII. possessed the evil talis- man, which accounted for his many wives, but there is little data for the belief. The scene changes again—this time across the seas to the American shores. The war of the revolution was be- ing fought and the evil talisman came across the ocean in a British man-of-war. It was in the possession of an English officer, the unfortunate Major Andre. He, too, met his fate. But before he died he was allowed to send a package to his family, and among other valuables it con- tained the fatal pocket piece. See how justice is some- times meted out. Arnold had seen this strange piece of money in Andre’s possession during one of their brief 1n- terviews. The piece was stolen from Andre’s widow, and found its way to a London pawnshop. One day the man without friends or home—the traitor, Arnold—en- tered the shop and recognized it. With some feeling of remorse, and we know of not what other sentiments he purchased it. Cursed as his life had been, doubly cursed was it afterward. One scene more. No one has ever really known the secret of Napoleon’s fall. Remembering his triumphant Gomicbook (E(o)