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 Captain MacNab and his crew awaited the further orders in a comparatively pure atmosphere. A letter, marked "private and urgent," ordered the steamer back to her native port, and directed Mr. Nicholson-Croly to impress upon the Captain and crew the absolute necessity for silence.

The next two hundred tons of "May Queens" were sent to Curraghmore by rail, and Mr. Nicholson-Croly had the satisfaction of handing them over, free of charge, to people who grumbled a good deal because they were "a poor, soft kind of potato," and certain to "rot on us in the ground."