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company, and learned that the "Lesbos", on which he was arriving, was coming in at 5:00 A.M. and would stay only long enough to disembark the passengers, and would then go elsewhere to discharge freight. That meant that the passengers would be routed out early to leave the ship as soon as it arrived. The fact that he would probably have left the boat by the time I could get there (the electric starts at 5:00), and would it in all events be out of his cabin, combined with the fact that I have never seen the man and would be almost certain to miss him in the landing farce, gave the exploit all the prerequisites of a fine wild goose chase. This, combined with my congenital
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