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`` No , no , -- get on with it , '' urged Captain Trigger . `` Several of them were sailing on this ship , and they were having a little farewell party . That , however , has nothing to do with the case . I left them at midnight and went up to my room . Now comes the part you will not believe . During the night , -- I sleep very soundly , -- some one entered my room , rifled my pockets , and got away with everything I possessed , except my clothes and the five-dollar gold piece I have carried ever since I left home , -- as a lucky coin , you know . He -- '' `` How did he happen to overlook your lucky coin ? ''