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Updated: June 11, 2025
I was not aware that any boats except the Karlsefin had arrived for some days." The two leaned against the deserted bar; and Madama set out a bottle without waiting for the doctor's order. There was no dust on it. After they had drank twice Smith said: "You say there were no passengers on the Karlsefin, Doc? Are you sure about that?
The Karlsefin had come, he said, from New York, to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been conveyed. Two or three of the freighter sloops were engaged to assist in the work, for the captain was anxious to make a quick return in order to reap the advantage offered by a certain dearth of fruit in the States.
It seems to me I heard somebody down on the beach say that there was one or two aboard." "They were mistaken, sir. I myself went out and put all hands through a medical examination, as usual. The Karlsefin sails as soon as she gets her bananas loaded, which will be about daylight in the morning, and she got everything ready this afternoon. No, sir, there was no passenger list.
It will give me two years in Paris and one in Italy. I'll begin to pack to-morrow." "You'll begin in ten minutes," said Keogh. "It's to-morrow now. The Karlsefin starts back at four P.M. Come on to your painting shop, and I'll help you." For five months in the year Coralio is the Newport of Anchuria. Then only does the town possess life.
Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. In the offing the Karlsefin swayed at anchor, her lights seeming to penetrate the water to countless fathoms with their shimmering, lanceolate reflections.
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