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"The leader of the gang. New Balance M1300DG I shall have the others, but he first."
"How did you trace it, then?"
He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with dates and names.
"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."
"Texas, I think."
"I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must have an American
origin."
"What then?"
"I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque 'Lone Star' was
there in January, '85, my suspicion became a certainty. I then inquired as to the
vessels which lay at present in the port of London."
"Yes?"
"The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the Albert Dock and
found that she had been taken down the river by the early tide this morning,
homeward bound to Savannah. I wired to Gravesend and learned that she had
passed some time ago, and as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now
past the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight."
"What will you do, then?"
New Balance M1300GBW "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I learn, the only native-
born Americans in the ship. The others are Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they
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