A man as wise as Morgenstern would have foreseen the danger, and might well have had the prudence to lay down a store of gold—the only safe money since the beginning of time. Might I trouble you for more gin, Captain?” Hancock leaned over and filled his glass. “If the ancients were foolish enough to trade with airy tokens, ’tis no wonder they were ruined.” “It both made their vast trade possible and rendered them beggars when it failed. Consider waking up one morning entirely destitute, with skills no longer of value or of any use in the struggle for life! Their world was based upon
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