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...Charles Island they took ashore gifts (food, medicine, newspapers, magazines) from the Senior Shellback to Heinz Wittmer & family, Mr. & Mrs. Elmir A. Conway of California and five Ecuadorian Indians who constitute the island's population...
...seemed to be dressed in lingerie. There were some baby clothes nearby, a little pile of French money, a German passport issued to Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, No. 211 Avenue Daumesnil, Paris. There was a bundle of letters and photographs, most of them bearing the name of Mrs. Margaret Wittmer. Soon the Santa Amaro was hull down in Mystery...
...Paris; 2) Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, her small, weak, tuberculous lover; 3) Robert Philippson, also a German and their common friend. In their search for an island paradise in the Pacific they had come upon Charles Island only to find it already occupied by two other romantic German couples. Arthur Wittmer and his wife, Margaret Walbrol, practicing nudists, lived with their two children in a corrugated zinc hut. Dr. Karl Ritter and Frau Dore Koervin had abandoned their respective spouses to seek Utopian freedom. Dr. Ritter was a dentist. Thinking of life 800 miles from an electric drill...
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...
...Princeton basketball team, coached by Albert Wittmer Jr. who last autumn coached one of the worst football teams in Princeton history: a play-off game for the Eastern League Championship, against Columbia...