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→So we got dressed, and the convent girls waved us a sad goodbye, treading water and peering over the edge of their canoe. They knew that, if they were in trouble when Sister Roswitha got them back to the convent, we were going to be in trouble to the power of three when Svoboda got us back aboard our ship.

→This must have gone on a good ten minutes or so, by which time I was beginning to feel uncomfortably waterlogged around the sinal passages. I broke surface again, and saw through streaming eyes one of them perched on the bow of their canoe, mocking me. I blew out the water and wiped my eyes clear, laughing.

→“The main reason, Herr Professor, is that a Dalmatian sailor called Fabrizzi has turned up claiming to be a survivor from the St Margaret. I interviewed the man myself when we were in Punta Arenas—though he refused to come aboard for fear that he would be arrested for perjury and taken back to Austria. Myself, I believe the man to be a fraud. But his name tallies with one on the vessel’s crew list, and he certainly seems to have gathered quite a convincing amount of detail about the ship and her master—also highly discreditable stories which, I might add, he is threat-ening to sell to the press in Europe unless substantial sums are paid to keep him quiet. He says, in brief, that the St Margaret in fact rounded the Horn in early August 1890, but suffered so badly from the weather that she later ran aground in fog in a cove somewhere along this coast—he is being deliberately vague about where exactly.He maintains that Herr Orth and the crew survived, and that he and several others left them and set out in a boat through the channels to reach Punta Arenas—except that the boat capsized in a squall somewhere near Dawson Island and that everyone but Fabrizzi was lost.Vienna has got wind of this man’s story through our consul in Montevideo, so that is why we are now try-ing to verify it: by scouring the coasts of this awful desolation looking for a ship and a man who have been lying at the bottom of the sea these past twelve years.”