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Updated: June 18, 2025
I know that he went home in one of Lamport & Holt's boats only a few months ago that was after the wreck of the Rosana, you understand and it was while he was in England that I saw him, and knew for certain that he had not gone down in the wreck. My warrant against him is for a common hotel robbery.
I 'll keep to the story of the Rosana as time is short. Mr. Dunbar took his faithful friend his short pipe from its red-lined case, filled it with tobacco, and began to draw luxuriously. 'The Rosana sprang a leak after her first day out, on her run down the coast, and was lost in twenty fathoms of water.
Dunbar was scribbling rapidly in his notebook. 'It is as clear as mud! he said at last. 'Purvis, after the Rosana incident, was missing for a considerable time, and it is believed that his English wife at Rosario hid him somewhere. There he probably heard the story of his adoption, and determined to prove himself the eldest son.
Tranter was the captain of the Rosana, and he liked to have things nice. Now, why should this boat have been found half-burnt on the coast, but with a piece of her name in gold leaf still partially visible? 'The boat probably drifted ashore, said Peter, as if he were answering a question in a history class. Dunbar hardly seemed to hear him, and went on with hardly a moment's interruption.
Tranter was the first to discover that the Rosana was leaking badly; and the hold was half-flooded before any one knew anything about it, and the Rosana was settling by her head. Smith, it seems, and the captain were armed, or armed themselves as soon as the state of affairs was known; and before the rest of the crew were awake four men were ordered to man the boat and bring her alongside.
He was a grand talker, according to his compatriots, and he chiefly loved the engineers' mess-room, where he could sit by a table covered in oil-cloth, and sip a little weak whisky and water, and revert to his broadest Doric in company with some engineers from the Clyde. 'The Rosana, continued Dunbar, clearing his throat, 'only carried one boat on her last journey.
'I would not have made the suggestion, he said quietly, 'only, you see, since the wreck of the Rosana I have seen E. W. Smith or his ghost, and that is why I do not believe in the final disappearance of a man till I have set eyes upon his corpse. Peter sat on a cow's skull, bleached and white, at the Estancia Las Lomas, reading a letter from Jane Erskine.
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