The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 99: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Q2 The Indestructible Story. It is needless to write further. Every antiquarian, every numismatist, every student of history knows what that coin was. It was one of the thirty pieces for which Judas Iscariot betrayed his God. He went out and slew himself. The high priest would not allow “the price of blood” to return to the treasury, and marking each piece with a cross, purchased with them a potter’s field. ‘They paid the money to one Jab- nael. Legend has it that before twelve months had passed he died a horrible death. To Simon Magus some of the money passed, and holy writ gives a succinct account of his tragic end. And so on, down to Julian, each man who held one of the fatal pieces was doomed. In time they became scattered, and it was impossible to trace them; but I have no doubt but that each one of those blood-stained thirty is still in the world, bearing with it the curse of God. I have traced but the one. Where are the twenty-nine? Gomichbook (E(o)