Pretty good camp-fire
yarn, hey? Not so worse? Just look into the fire yourselves and think
about that letter. Nothing but a kind of fancy, hey? Faces in the blaze
and all that sort of stuff. Never saw me get sentimental before, did
you--Skeezeks?
The funny part of the whole thing is that the man we saw in the boat
_didn't have any second finger on his left hand._ It couldn't have been
his finger the writer of the letter meant.
CHAPTER XVI
THE MYSTERY
Gee whiz, I didn't even know that he had stopped talking. I was just
looking into the blaze and I could see the whole thing right there. Maybe
it wasn't true at all, but anyway, I could see it. Especially I could see
the old man. That's just the way it is with camp-fires.
Then, all of a sudden Harry Donnelle poked up the fire and began to laugh.
"Funny, hey?" he said.
I said, "Do you think the dead man in the boat stole the money and the
letter?"
"The letter happened to be with the money," Harry said; "I don't know that
I think anything in particular. But how did a sailor with the second finger
of his left hand gone, happen to have a letter asking him to wear a ring on
that finger.
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