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The Queen’s Cup

CHAPTER 12
10/31

Still, I will ask them to get it done if possible, though I fear that it is quite beyond their power." "Thank you very much indeed.

It would be an immense thing only to find out that she has gone in that direction.

Of course, she may not put in at any of these places, as she is sure to have provisioned for a long voyage, but at any rate I will wait at Gibraltar until I get the letters, unless I can get some clue that she has gone up the Mediterranean.
"Of course, if I don't hear of her at Cape Saint Vincent or Tarifa, I shall try Ceuta and Tangier.

If she goes up on the southern side of the Straits, she may anchor off either, and send a boat in to get fresh meat and fruit." "The Royal mail and the mail down the African coast will start, one tomorrow, the other on Monday, and I will send letters by them to the islands.

They are sure to get there before this craft that you are in search of, and our agents will be on the lookout for her.


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