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By the time that their sailing-ship reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder."	Но я знал, что это судно должно быть американского происхождения.
There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as resolute as themselves, was upon their track.	- И что же?
Very long and very severe were the equinoctial gales that year.	- Я просмотрел записи прихода и ухода судов в Данди, и, когда я обнаружил, что парусник
We waited long for news of the Lone Star of Savannah, but none ever reached us.	"Одинокая звезда" был там в январе 85 года, мои подозрения обратились в уверенность.
We did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough of a wave, with the letters	Тогда я навел справки относительно судов, находящихся в настоящее время в Лондонском порту.
"L.	- И что же?
S." carved upon it, and that is all which we shall ever know of the fate of the Lone Star.	- "Одинокая звезда" прибыла сюда на прошлой неделе.