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THE MILLION-DOLLAR MYSTERY
our flagboat with its heroic crew was still available and I was making ready to return to Nassau over the milkwhite sea, dotted with floating wreckage, when a rescue boat came up from Nassau to look for us. It was a big stout ship and I was glad to see it, and leaving a skeleton crew in charge, I took all hands down to our main headquarters for a change of clothing and a bath, to come back refreshed and ready to proceed with the work. At Nassau the awful news came over the wire. The storm had gone on to the Florida coast and had almost wrecked the city of Miami. Ships had been swept far up on the mainland and hundreds of lives lost in the Everglades section.
And together with news of the frightful disaster, I found in my mail an account of a Hollywood hurricane on The Mysterious Island. The first three reels of the portion of the picture that was being filmed in the studio had been re-shot and still the supervisor was not satisfied. The director, a Frenchman, despairing of ever being able to suit the supervisor, had given up in disgust and left for his home in Paris. Even though I lacked the details, I knew it had been a tempest that had rivalled in intensity the one that we had just been through. Now a new director who hailed from Denmark was assigned to the studio half of The Mysterious Island.
After an exchange of wires with the studio heads it was decided that we should rebuild and go on. This I did on the definite understanding that none of my crew
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