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 Perhaps Mark has this watch below, but I rather hope not because it would be nicer on deck, particularly if you can really see those very bright red and yellow fishes under the water. Ends with some stars showing. Breeze fresher, hauling S. by W.

July 22. Comes in clear and fresh, stiff breeze S. W. Walked with Mr. Bolliver before breakfast to the harbor to see a big schooner come in. She is the Rosamund Hull and is just in from Savannah. We would have gone aboard I think, if it hadn't been so nearly breakfast time, which was a great pity. Thunder and lightning happened suddenly about noon, and quite a lot of rain, so we stayed in the house and talked. Mr. Bolliver began wondering who ever stole the model of the Fortune in the beginning, and why, and the aunts began remembering all sorts of things they never thought of when I asked them. Of course they were quite little when it all happened, but they remember a cross old servant of great-grandfather's, called Elias Rollin, and he had a very long, yellowish sort of face that frightened the little aunts. He used to be a sailor on one of great-grandfather's ships. The aunts think he went away before the Fortune went down, because they can't remember him after that. Mr. Bolliver thinks that perhaps he stole the model with an idea that it was very valuable itself, because he'd heard the saying about the fortunes of the Ingrams and the Fortune of the Indies. Probably great-grandfather talked about it quite a lot and the man