Word: spernak
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...Jack Morgan became acquainted. Last fortnight impecunious Jack Morgan "chartered" the Aafje to take his pregnant wife on a cruise and Yachtsman Faulding took on two young men named Edward Spernak and Robert Home as crew. Glib Jack Morgan talked Los Angeles Nurse Elsie Berdan into joining the party to take care of his wife. Sportsman Faulding invited along one of his friends, stoutish Mrs. Gertrude Turner, who brought her 8-year-old son Robert. On the evening of December 20 the Aafje and its eight passengers cleared the San Pedro breakwater and scudded silently out into the Pacific...
Soon Jack Morgan decided to keep the dwindling food and water, laid in for a two-day trip, to himself. On the fourth day, Christmas Eve, thoroughly scared, Spernak and Home managed to steal up to Jack Morgan, fell him with a marlin spike. In the scuffle he went overboard, into the shark-infested waters where he had thrown dead Dwight Faulding. Then, some 500 miles away from home off the Mexican coast, without fuel for the auxiliary engines and a mainsail disabled by storms. the skipperless Aafje turned to drift back...
When the Perseus and the Aafje finally reached San Pedro last week little Robert Turner was sick, Mrs. Turner was sobbing, Lillian Morgan had begun to laugh, Nurse Berdan was grim, all near hysteria. Spernak and Home, held on charges of murder, were expected to plead self-defense. The Aafje, which Jean Dee Jarnette had hoped would carry him to a remote Paradise, was promptly attached by two ship chandlers who claimed that the late Dwight Faulding owed them...
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