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Jack in the Forecastle

CHAPTER XVII
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I know it.

I have seen it a thousand times.

She was here not five minutes ago, lamenting the loss of it.

How overjoyed she will be when she knows it is found! I will send to her directly, and make her happy with the news." Mrs.Hansen disappeared, leaving me, I am afraid, looking rather confounded at this singular and unexpected COINCIDENCE, and almost sorry that the owner of the pin had been so easily discovered.

In a few minutes Mrs.Hansen returned, accompanied by "her dear friend," Mrs.
Johnson, who, after examining the pin, said it was her own.


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