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A meeting between the narrator and an Irish ex-soldier with a mutilated hand recalls the latter's time in India in the 1860s. After avenging the death of his fiancee at the hands of Sepoy mutineers by killing many Indians, a hand wound leaves him unfit for service. In 1864 he meets the narrator on an England-bound ship. The sergeant disappears in the English Channel after an apparent attack on a Hindu servant on board whom he had attacked once before. Later in New York when they meet again, further violence ensues. (PB)
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New York (City),
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- ca. 1857-1869
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