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The Midnight Passenger

CHAPTER VIII
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Thank God! none was found there.

He gave bail, the honest fellow managed to telegraph me the agreed-on tip.

I was watching over you in Brooklyn.
"I bundled you in a carriage, as you were so ill, caught a tug, ran around to Hoboken, reached this ship just as it sailed! He knows not who betrayed him, but the staunch old boy got five thousand dollars to me, and the 'brotherhood' over here will take care of me.
"I will lie by in hiding for a season, and I can send the usual goods in by Norwegian tramp steamers.

I have a square friend on board here, the head steward, one of the Baltic smuggling gang's best men.

So, my dear girl, look your prettiest when we land in Stettin." It was only by a grand effort of will that he faced her coldly searching gaze.


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