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Colonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories

CHAPTER II
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And there, too, caught as in a net, lay the wooden box of securities Sol.

Catlin had abandoned to the sea.
This is the story as it was told to me.

The singularity of coincidences has challenged some speculation.

Jenny insisted at the time upon sharing the full reward with Catlin, but local critics have pointed out that from subsequent events this proved nothing.

For she had married him! OUT OF A PIONEER'S TRUNK.
It was a slightly cynical, but fairly good-humored crowd that had gathered before a warehouse on Long Wharf in San Francisco one afternoon in the summer of '51.


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