Foundlings -- Fiction; Long Island (N.Y.) -- Fiction
The _Sea Wanderer_ is an old ship, a squarerigger, and she went
around Cape Horn. Of course I inquired right away about her and
learned that she arrived safely at Leith after a passage of five
months--not very swift, you see. I wasn’t able to find out what
became of Guy after that, but he reached Scotland all right, for
there was no trouble on the passage and no one was lost or died. He
was paid off at the Board of Trade office in Leith along with the
rest of the crew.
He appears to have gone straight to San Francisco from New York and
to have shipped there on this passage before doing anything else.
The time interval is too short to have allowed him to do anything
else. It was not more than ten days, apparently, from the time he
left New York to the day the _Sea Wanderer_ sailed. The people at the
Federal Employment Bureau in San Francisco have no recollection of
him. They don’t recall anything he said nor what he looked like. He
was just one of hundreds of others they deal with every day. The only
actual identification, of course, lies in the name, and it is highly
improbable that the man who was shipped on the _Sea Wanderer_ was
some other Guy Vanton. I think that, in a way, you will be glad to
know that he kept his own name. It makes him seem more like a fellow
going about his proper business and not trying to hide or run away
from something.
He wasn’t doing that, I feel sure. He was just going after something
he hadn’t got. Let’s hope he gets it and comes back safely with it.
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