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Captain Desfrayne selected a paper, and slowly turned over the pages as he cut them. Some time elapsed before he spoke; for he could not exactly frame words in which to put the question he meant to ask.
"What part of Italy did you come from? " he inquired carelessly, following the spiral line of cigar-smoke, as he breathed it from his lips.