No Traveller Returns (Lost Treasures) by Louis L'Amour & Beau L'Amour

Author:Louis L'Amour & Beau L'Amour
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

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As Shorty sounded eight bells, Borly Shannon came up the ladder to the bridge. “Anything in sight, John?” he asked. “I figured you might be running into the Jap fleet out here somewhere.”

Harlan smiled. “What would you do if we did?”

“Nothin’, I’m a peaceable guy. Still, if anybody starts trouble we can break out our Lyle gun an’ let ’em have it! We could shoot ’em enough line to hang themselves with, anyway.”

“War’s something I don’t want any part of,” Harlan said, shaking his head. “It’s a silly business for supposedly civilized people. And no one gains. I seriously doubt whether they’ll ever finish another war.”

“Yeah,” Shannon said thoughtfully, “they’ll fight till the novelty wears off and then they’ll quit and come home. They’ll quit in droves just like the Russians did, and like the French tried to do. And like I wanted to do.” He grinned. “Killing people isn’t my idea of fun. I like to do my fighting with my fists!”

Shorty Conrad put the wheel up a couple of spokes to bring her right on the course. Deek Hayes came in to take over, and winked. “There’s a good poker game aft! Better cut yourself in—they need somebody with some money to lose!”

“Nuts t’ you, Sailor!” Shorty said, and spun on his heel, leaving the wheelhouse.

The afternoon sun had taken a downward slant toward the horizon, but long after it was dark back there in America, it would still be light here. Back there in America where Doc Dunlap, Mrs. Haley, and Faustine were living. Or were they? Might they all not be dead now? Gone?

Shorty Conrad paused by the rail and stared back toward the eastern horizon. Dead. It gave him a sinking feeling inside, a feeling of such sadness as he had not known before. His mother was dead. His father, a good-for-nothing dreamer, was no doubt also dead. His sis—he found himself wishing suddenly that he hadn’t come, that he had stayed ashore this trip, and put all his time to finding his sister. After all, someone in Hollywood might have heard of the family she went to live with. There were so many show people in town, and someone might know about the Mallochs or people in the British theater. He would have to ask Denny. He might know where to start asking around.

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