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"What method has Mullen adopted for covering up his traces? " I asked myself, and as I did so a passage from the letter which had been sent to him by Mrs. Burgoyne -- the letter which I had fortunately intercepted -- flashed into my mind.
"I do not see any necessity," she had written, "for doing as you say in regard to sending the present crew back to England under the pretence that we are not likely to be using the yacht for some time, and then, after getting the ship's appearance altered by repainting and rechristening her the name you mention, engaging another crew of Norwegians."