In Search of an Unknown Race — page 218: what you’re looking at

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or walk with him unlessI go with them, though he don’t like that at all. At the conservatory, where she is learning music and the languages, Ninada is called the handsomest girl who ever studied there, and best of all, she is as good as she is lovely. Then followed along budget of home news, which has no connection with my story, after which Miss Peterson concluded by saying : Captain Paul Brooks, who is just home from the Phil- ippine Islands, thinks that he has seen the Rattler under another name, and differently painted—white, with a black stripe round the bends. She was then bound for Shanghai from San Francisco, but outsailed the bark he was in, so he could not board her. I think he said the name was changed to Viva. I hope you can make some inquiries and see whether he is right. Who knows but you may get hold of your vessel again f Write me from Yokohama, and send your love to Ninada. You will think as much of her as I do when you come to know her. Affectionately, Patty. It would be impossible to describe Van Briscoe’s sen: sations as he perused this letter after Captain Peterson had finished it. Regret that his supposed death had been productive of sorrow in the quiet house, anger against Flores, and above all a deep sense of joy that Ninada kept his memory green, were confusedly blended in his mind. GoOMmIichooks (E(0)