The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-19
CHAPTER X.

A new life was about TO dawn for Mrs.
John Allaire. While there was absolute
certainty as regards the death of her child,
this was not so in the case of her husband.
Might not John and his companions hspc
survived the wreck Of their ship, and have
taken refuge on one of the numerous islands
of the Philippine, the Celebes or the Java
Seas? Could it not he possible that TREY
had been restrained of their liberty by some
native tribe and were without means of
escape? This was the hope to which Mrs.
Allaire was henceforth to cling with
teDacIty so extraordinary as TO bring about
in San Diego and elsewhere a change of
opinion as regards the Dreadnaught.
There were frequent consultations at
Prospect Cottage, which, rich as she now
was, Molly had not been willing to leave.
Captain John had left here there on sailing
away-he should find her there on his re-
turn. She resolved TO make not the least
change in her mode of life until her hus-
band was once more back in San Diego.
She was determined that the same sim
plicity should characterize her style of liy-
ing, that she would spend nothing ad-
ditional except as called for by her eXpedi-
tons and her charities.
TIE important task to which Hollister
and Captain Willis first turned their atten-
ton when IN consultation with Mrs. Allaire
was to fix upon the course which had been
followed by the Dreadnaught. 1t was neees-
sary to establish this with the greatest
lister d Co. had shipped goods by
this vessel to the Indies, with ipstruc-
tons to touch at Singapore. for
which port she also carried consignment
Of MERCHANDISE. Now, after getting away
from the American coast, the probabilities
were that Captain John had passed in the
neighborhood of the Hawaiian Archipelago
or Sandwich Islands. After leaving
the Ansen Archipelago the Dreadnaught
had no doubt taken the direction of the
Mariana and the Philippine Islands, thence
through Celebes Sea and Macassar Strait to
the Java Sea, which is bounded on the south
by the Sunda Islands, in order TO reach
Singapore. The Strait OF Malacca which is
formed by the Malay peninsula and the
Island OF Sumatra, opens on the west into
the Bay of Bengal, in which, outside of the
Audaman and Nieobar Islands, there was
no place where the wrecked crew could have
found refuge. Beyond all doubt John AL
laire had not reached the Bay of Bengal. for
inasmucb as he had not touched at Singo-
pore, and this was now known to be the
case. II must be that he had been unable TO
get beyond the limits OF the Java Sea and
the Sunda Islands.
As for supposing that the Dreadnaught
instead OF following the Malaysian route
had attempted to reach Calcutta by thread
ing her way through the difficult passes of
Torres Strait along the north coast of the
Australian continent, no good seaman wouId
have dreamed of such thing. Captain
Willis insisted that Captain John would
sever have taken such rash and uncalled
Tor step as to expose his ship to the danpers
IF this route. The idea was not to be- in.
dulged for moment, and it was resolved to
ionflne the search solely to the route already
eiarked out as the one most likely followed
BY Allaire
The fact is that the Caroline, Celebes and
ava seas are hlled with thousands of Islands