Word: marchena
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...cruise of Velero III, a 195-foot, steel superyacht equipped with tanks, cages, diving helmets, dredging apparatus, Hancock found "Eden," the idyllic home on Galapagan Charles Island of toothless Escapist Dr. Frederick Ritter and his toothless common-law wife Frau Dore Koerwin. Three years later he discovered on Marchena the twisted, mummified body of Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, castoff tuberculous lover of a Galapagan lady, the Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrborn, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol...
...Mackay radio station at Los Angeles last fortnight went a halting message from the tight little tuna-fishing schooner Santa Amaro, Manuel Rodriguez, Master. The Santa Amaro, lying off Marchena Island, one of the northernmost of the Galapagos group, had exciting news to report. Passing bleak, barren, fresh-waterless Marchena that morning her crew spied a small skiff hauled high on the rocks of the shore. Swinging closer they saw a tall pole and fluttering from it a few limp rags. On shore they found a dead seal with strips of flesh hacked from it, a few bits of iguana...
Until the finding of the two starved corpses on Marchena Island, 160 miles north of Charles Island, that was all the 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...
...turn up there to be patronized by the newly rich and betray my blood and breeding? Never!" He disapproved, "does not care for Mr. Felton." Married. Sir Basil Zaharoff, 74, "man of mystery of Europe," whose great wealth has armed armies, financed nations, shaped policies, to the Duchess of Marchena, relative of the Kings of Spain; at Chateau de Balincourt, near Paris. Divorced. Mrs. Gene Gowen from Albert I. Gowen; in Chicago. The charge was neglect. Two years ago, the Gowens honeymooned in their 98-ft. yacht, Speejacks, crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, weathered a China Sea monsoon, slipped through...
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