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Juro realized with some dismay that the girl—whose name he had not found out—wasn’t there in the morning. Zarigani also missed the departure of the ship, but Juro didn’t connect the dots. Zarigani was reported missing a few days later, but the investigation didn’t turn up anything. A year later, he was declared dead. Nobody missed him, and only a few rumours went around about him among the sailors.
Juro believed that the girl was caught by her pursuers—could have been gangsters—or perhaps she found another way to get to Los Angeles.
On the third day of the voyage, Juro realised who the girl in the port resembled: Lilian Bailey, the actress, but he knew that it could not have been her. He concluded that the woman in the port just resembled her very closely.
He knew that celebrities a
