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"Tamaroo! " repeated the negro, showing a good set of teeth for so old a man. "I come about the letter."
Eustace looked at him, and remembered a certain negro who had been waiting for Anchor at the time the miner was shot. Evidently Anchor had been about to explain that the man was waiting, when the bullet struck him. "Tamaroo! " murmured Eustace. "I might have guessed that so queer a name would be connected with something barbaric. Come in!"