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an idea as to

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tion of the dead. She was wh

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mind took any particular line

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the reappearance of the boy Tommy. The little fellow had been running hard, and wa

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you go and watch th

where the detectiv

we've not a m

the matt

still on the coast; they are all mad

are the m

there they will commence a search for you; they're all mad with

und here beyond the duty of breaking up the gang of smugglers. I'm going to solve the my

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boatman's cabin, which was not more than six hundred feet distant from where the dete

efooted girl but a few hours, and he had come to feel more interest in her than he had ever cherishe

rustic beauty, handsome, but ignorant; but alas! a better knowledge of her taught him that she was a refined and educated g

ot but picture to himself what a ravishingly lovely creature she would be under different auspic

he man meant to take the girl to Cuba, perchance, to make her his wife, and why not? She

ng with the girl and the stranger incidents that followed that meeting. He was

ices of the modern science of criminal detection. He was as good at the art of disguise as any in the profession, and it was

rm;" no living man, unless posted as to his disguise, could ever have recognised in the dark-faced, rough-looking man who