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been out of touch with them for more than two or three years at a time. They would eventually hear from him.

This was all that was known about his background in Australia. Where he went on this ship nobody seemed to know, but he had been in Mexico at one time. Wherever he had been he had earned his living any way he could. He had earned his living as an ordinary Sorkman, or a seaman, or a longshoreman, whatever he could get to do. It was always unskilled labor. He never had learned a trade. He had been in Mexico. The police could name the places, but there was no record on him particularly.

Then he had come to the United States and had entered the United States from Mexico. That was a matter of record at the immigration station. He was a British subject, but he had crossed over the border from Mexico to the U.S.S. There was perhaps two or three years before he went to work for the Moore-McCormack Line. Nothing was known about him other than that.

Then the police, or somebody, made a report that he went to some radical meetings that were held in a private house - at least, it was built like a private house. It was probably a lodging house on some sort. It was down in that part of San Francisco where the streets lead off the Embarcadero and sort of go up the hill from there.