"You understand that it will be a picnic," added Farrell.
"My good sir!" protested Foe.
"Yes? . . . It will be better than Engelbaum's, any way. I don't
mind promising," said Farrell. "We will talk over old times, and
Santa shall play her guitar to us."
That is how the two men met.
The _P.M. Diaz_ plied no farther than Callao. From Callao the
Farrells, with their furniture, and Foe in company, worked down by
coasters to Valparaiso.
Does any one of you remember the mystery of the _Eurotas_? which
regularly for about four months occupied from an inch-and-a-half to
four inches space in the newspapers. In 1909 . . . pretty late in
the year. She happened to be the first ship of a new line started
between Valparaiso and Sydney, and her owners had so well boomed the
adventure in the Press that, when she began to be reported as
overdue, the public woke up and she became as interesting as a lost
dog. She was of 12,000 tons, new, Clyde-built, well-found, and
carried a mixed cargo, with about twenty passengers. Two vessels
reported having passed her, about three hundred miles out.
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