After
that she had become as a ship that had never been.
In his casual way--for I must remind you that he and I had lost all
trace of Foe and Farrell in New York--Jimmy lit on the next item of
news.
Long before the _Eurotas_ was posted as "missing," the newspapers
published a list of her passengers. Jimmy, seizing on this, ran his
eye down it, and let out the sort of cry with which he greets all
news, good, bad, or indifferent.
"I say, Otty!--here it is, and what do you make of it?--'The s.s.
_Eurotas_. . . . List of Passengers.
"Mr. and Mrs. P. Farrell, San Ramon, Peru.
Professor J. Foe, of London. . . .'"
And after that there was silence for four years. The bell at Lloyd's
never rang to announce the arrival of the _Eurotas_. By Christmas
her underwriters were paying up, and the newspapers had lost interest
in her fate.
NIGHT THE FIFTEENTH.
REDIVIVUS.
About seven weeks later Norgate called on me with evidence that
settled the last doubt: a letter from Foe, written from Valparaiso.
It was brief enough. It merely announced that he was on the eve of
sailing for Sydney and wished to have credit for 600 pounds opened
with the Bank of New South Wales.
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