I had noticed it a while back. There is even a question about that in this forum. Remembering a comment you had made about your dad not really liking to re-read and being uncomfortable with editing, I just assumed that he had played with two different ways to tie the Chantry family storyline to the Sackett family storyline and forgot to edit one out. In the overall storyline, I think the one about the young Tatton showing up on the ship doesn't really work. It's almost like a throw-away one liner. The overall storyline is really built around the other version. I'd also like to point out an ironic point. If you combine the three family lines (Sackett, Talon, and Chantry) into one chronology, the first and last books are both Chantry books - Fair Blows the Wind and North to the Rails.

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