was a model ship, called The Billy O’ Tea, in a rum bottle, bags of sugar and tea, a couple of bottles of rum and a bag of gold coins. Trying to avoid looking at the girded loins of the handsome fisherman, Jeanie rummaged through the items in the box and found at the bottom a tightly rolled piece of parchment covered in writing. Carefully taking it out of the box, she blew the dust off it with puckered lips that stirred a memory deep in the recesses of the fisherman’s addled brain. She gingerly unrolled the parchment and read, with mounting fear and surprise that...