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Captain Passford had certainly kept his own counsel with punctilious / care; for he had never even mentioned the skilful detective in his / family, though the members of it had met the gentleman in Paris and in / Havre. Mr. Gilfleur was in constant communication with him while he was / working up the exposure of the treason of Davis, who might have been a / relative of the distinguished gentleman at the head of the Southern / Confederacy, though there was no evidence to this effect.
"If the captain of this steamer manages his affair well with the Ionian, / I expect to find letters on board of her signed by Davis," continued Mr. / Gilfleur. "From the information I obtained, your father put American / detectives on the scent of Davis, who dogged him day and night till they / found the Ionian, and ascertained in what manner she obtained her cargo; / but she had been partly loaded before they reached a conclusion, and it / is suspected that she has arms under the pieces of machinery, perhaps / cannon and ammunition."