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"And who is this Captain Calhoun?"

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"The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first."

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"How did you trace it, then?"

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He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with dates and names.

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"I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers and files of the old papers, following the future career of every vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were reported there during those months. Of these, one, the Lone Star, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to one of the states of the Union."

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"Texas, I think.


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