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And a very strange thrill ran through me as I read on the mouldy page in brown faint letters the date, "October 5, 1814," and across the page-head, in bigger brown faint letters: "U.S. Sloop-of-war Wasp": and so knew that I was aboard of that stinging little war-sloop whereof the record is a bright legend, and the fate a mystery, of our Navy which in less than three months' time successively fought and whipped three English war-vessels the ship Reindeer and the brigs Avon and Atalanta, all of them bigger than herself and then, being last sighted in September, 1814, not far from the Azores, vanished with all her crew and officers from off the ocean and never was seen nor heard of again.
Quickly Kennedy seized a pencil and wrote as the message that no hand of man could interfere with was flashed back to us. "It is for you, Walter, from the Star," he said, simply handing me what he had written on the back of an old envelope. I read, almost afraid to read: Robbery story killed. Black type across page-head last edition, "Treasure-train safe!" McGRATH.
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