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...many rumors about the motive of Girl Pat's wild escapade were last week laid by Harry Stone, her onetime mate, who was left behind in the Dakar Hospital. Said he: "When we left Grimsby, it was to fish. But Skipper Osborne had plans of his own. He was going to sell the boat in some foreign port and divide the proceeds with the crew. . . . We had no charts-only a child's atlas we'd bought at Woolworth's. . . . I was ill. In Dakar . . . they had to leave me behind...
...source. During the palmy days of Prohibition, they testified, Captain Cadek systematically jailed every liquor dealer in his territory who failed to give him handsome, periodic bribes. So well understood was Captain Cadek's policy that on one occasion the 'leggers combined to tender the "Skipper" a pig-roast and clambake, at which they presented him with two beer kegs so stuffed with currency that it had to be stamped down before Captain Cadek could lug it away...
...England, Skipper Osborne's wife was ill with worry, could think of no reason for the wild trip unless he was heading for New Zealand, where his brother has a fishing fleet. A friend said he had been asked to go, that Girl Pat was bound for the West Indies where Osborne intended to sell her before seeking adventure in the U. S. Other rumors: Girl Pat was searching for buried pirate treasure; she had become a love nest, and feminine laughter rippled through the portholes. Last week as Girl Pat vanished over the horizon an amateur radio operator...
...Nathaniel Alden, Oliver's millionaire uncle. They could have stepped out of Sinclair Lewis in their smugness, their fear and hate of the world, their lust for propriety. Two of a kind, again, though utterly different from the former, are Mario van der Weyer and Jim Darnley, the skipper of Peter Alden's yacht. Frankly sensual both, romantic and intelligent, the line between them is one solely of birth and breeding...
...Wander Bird" returned to Boston the day before Christmas having weathered the phenomenally heavy storms which ravaged shipping in the North Sea and the English Channel in late September and October. "We may, probably will, see far bigger seas off the Horn than we did then", the Skipper prophesied when asked if he did not consider this voyage hazardous, "but unless I was convinced that we'll have a far easier time with Cape Stiff than we did between Stockholm and Ushand last Fall, I'd not be going...