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AT THE SIGN OF THE "GOLDEN STAR."
women meet together which offers so fair a field for the development of acquaintance into something else as the deck of a passenger steamer, it was not very long before Mr. Ulrich Engstroem and Miss Frances Colegate found
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themselves upon terms of promising intimacy, which duly developed as the pleasant, idle days went on.
Miss Colegate was a young lady of excellent preservation but somewhat uncertain age