Case of the Dixie Ghosts

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A. A. Glynn. Case of the Dixie Ghosts

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For Julie and Quinn

On an August morning in 1865, sailors on the deck of the merchantman Barracouta, of Liverpool, stared open-mouthed across the sun-smitten waters off the coast of California at the flag fluttering from the high masts of the sleek vessel that had recently come into view and was now drawing closer to their own ship. “She’s built for fast travel and she’s armed,” rumbled the Barracouta’s grizzled bo’sun. “She has guns fore and aft—but look at her flag and where’s she been all these months? Better call the captain.”

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“I certainly should. He was tall and powerfully built, with a heavy moustache rather blond in colour, and there was one very noticeable thing about him—he had a blue mark, what I think is called a powder burn, near his right eye.”

“You mean the kind of thing soldiers sometimes have, caused by the flashback of the breech of a musket when it’s aimed from the shoulder?”

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