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Plot Against Hawley Drives Desolate Island Scheme
In 1852 New York Ruth Pedder and brother Luke Pedder plot to separate Clara Aymar and Will Hawley by faking Hawley’s desertion and Hawley’s arrival on a desert island. They arrange Hawley’s future imprisonment, remarriage, and eventual rescue to reunite them elsewhere, as the Flying Childers nears Kerguelen’s Island Desolation while Will Hawley serves as first mate.
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Will. Hawley
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Hawley
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Ruth Pedder
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Miss Pedder
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Job
Australia
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Ohio
Desert
New York
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Kerguelen’s Land
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Island of
Desolation
Africa
South Pole
Rhode Island
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