If the reader will cast a thought back to the classic sea mystery of the _Marie Celeste_, it will be clear how much this book owes its inception to the extraordinary derelict, the mystery of which remains unsolved to this day. But the author disclaims any attempt in the following pages to offer a solution of the mystery and has only used certain of the features surrounding the condition of the _Marie Celeste_ at the time she was found abandoned in mid-ocean for the purposes of his story-narrative. It was a time of tense emotion. Each was a-surge with an almost uncontrollable excitement as the two men moved up the whole length of the riffled sluice. Neither uttered one single word. But they …
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