Word: lorenzes
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...terrified fishermen from the mainland were imprisoned overnight or chased away at the pistol point. One shipwrecked honeymoon couple from Chile was sent to sea in an open boat, and there were other strange developments. With the changing seasons, the baroness' fancy also changed to Robert Philippson while Lorenz was reduced to a sort of super-scullion...
...night about a year ago a hideous row broke out in the baroness' shack. Scullion Lorenz took shelter with the neighboring Wittmers for several months. After a while he returned to the baroness...
...March there was another row at the baroness'. Scrambling down a rocky path to investigate, the Wittmers found wild-eyed Rudolph Lorenz standing by a deserted disordered shack. There had been a fight, said he, and the baroness and Philippson had gone off "on an American yacht" to start another colony in the South Seas...
...Post Office of Charles Island is an empty barrel on the seashore. In this barrel Lorenz posted a notice begging to be taken off by the first passing ship...
...outside world knew. The baroness had vanished. Radio Revivalist Phillips Lord ("Seth Parker"), cruising offshore, reported by wireless that he had dined with the Wittmers only the week before, that the second body could not be Mrs. Wittmer's. Soundest theory seemed to be that Rudolph Lorenz (who may or may not have murdered the baroness) was picked up by the Norwegian fisherman Nuggerud for the trip to San Cristobal Island where Lorenz could take schooner passage to the mainland; that Lorenz was taking with him some letters Mrs. Wittmer wanted posted and some of her baby...