Excerpt from Foul Play, Vol. 3 of 3

The Springbok arrived in due course at longitude 103 deg. 30 min., but saw no island. This was dispiriting; but still Captain Moreland did not despair.

He asked General Rolleston to examine the writing carefully, and tell him was that Miss Rolleston"s hand-writing.

The General shook his head sorrowfully.

"No," said he; "it is nothing like my child"s hand."

"Why, all the better," said Captain Moreland; "the lady has got somebody about her who knows a thing or two. The man that could catch wild ducks and turn "em into postmen, could hit on the longitude somehow; and he doesn"t pretend to be exact in the latitude."

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