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If she is a large one, she may have gone anywhere.
The worst of it is that unless we can get some clue as to her size we can do absolutely nothing.
A good many yachts went off today both east and west, and by the end of the week the whole fleet will be scattered, and even if we do get the size of the yacht, I don't see that we can do anything unless we can get her name too. "If we could do that, we could act at once.
I should run up to town, lay the case before the authorities at Scotland Yard, and get them to telegraph to every port in the kingdom, that upon her putting in there the vessel was at once to be searched for two ladies who were believed to have been forcibly carried away in her." "And have those on board arrested, I suppose, Major ?" "Well, that would have to be thought over, George.
Carthew could not be brought to punishment without the whole affair being made public.
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