His story appeared in the papers the next day but would only throw further veils of confusion upon the mystery. He was identified twice.
The first article announced that the missing boy was Johan Melicertes. No family, no fixed address. It said he was a drifter, drawn to the sea. His father locked in a mental asylum, his mother dead.
The second said he was Zeno Palaemon, a Greek fisherman from Corinth. It did not explain how he came to be in Limassol or why, if it were Palaemon, he had sought work on Le Dauphin; the ship now carrying me out into the silent Mediterranean.
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