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CHAPTER XVI--THE GIRL WHO HAD NOT GROWN UP
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What schooner?
Where is it?
How did she happen to buy it ?" "First, the schooner _Martha_," the skipper answered, checking his replies off on his fingers.

"Second, the _Martha_ is on the outside reef at Poonga-Poonga, looted clean of everything portable, and ready to go to pieces with the first bit of lively sea.

And third, Miss Lackland bought her at auction.

She was knocked down to her for fifty-five quid by the third-assistant-resident-commissioner.

I ought to know.


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