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A VANISHED CONTINENT
The next morning, the 19th of February, I saw the Canadian enter my room. I expected this visit. He looked very disappointed.
“Well, sir?” said he.
“Well, Ned, fortune was against us yesterday.”
“Yes; that Captain must needs stop exactly at the hour we intended leaving his vessel.”
“Yes, Ned, he had business at his bankers.”
“His bankers!”
“Or rather his banking-house; by that I mean the ocean, where his riches are safer than in the chests of the State.”
I then related to the Canadian the incidents of the preceding night, hoping to bring him back to the
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