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to search for the sword's missing half. Supposedly written on the sword is the owner's will that names the fencing instructor as a major heir of his deceased grandfather's fortune. Others also intent on finding the sword try hard to foil the Hardys from getting there first.
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After their fencing instructor Ettore Russo tells them about a family sword, the championship saber Adalante, the Hardy Boys go to
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Frank and Joe travel with their detective father, Fenton Hardy, to a town two hours from Bayport to break up a
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resulting in two different stories with the same title.
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