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 “Gad!” cried the old captain. “Now what do you make of that?

“The Count and Countess of Crecy were returning to Paris from their honeymoon trip round the world in the steam yacht Dolphin nearly twenty years ago, and after they touched at Australia were never heard of again.

“What tragedy, what mystery, what romance might not these sparkling gems disclose had they but tongues!”