Lieutenant Anstruther only had one eye. Have I gone full circle, sailing north to leave the culprit back in Dundee? I know there are at least two people involved. Could it be Anstruther and Masterton as well as Abernethy? Have the robberies stopped because Masterton is away from Dundee?* * *
Watters stirred in his bunk. He had thought it would be hard to adjust to the movement of a ship after so long luxuriating in a fixed bed shared with Marie, but he had slipped back into maritime life without much difficulty.
What had awakened him? Watters lay still, allowing his eyes to become accustomed to the dark of the fo’c’sle. He saw the sleeping figures of his crewmates and heard their laboured breathing in the tiny space, nearly devoid of air. One man was moving, creeping out of his bunk, and
