"Yeah, exactly," Radley said. That was a vague response and to him it felt like avoiding the question. But if that was how he wanted to play it, Radley wouldn't press it. He was content to focus on the ships too.

"If it's been a long time, it makes me wonder if this Fortuna is really real. It could just be a loco legend. It sounds like the legends about pirate treasures back home. A lot of those didn't seem to be real."

But sometimes they were.