Dark Spring

Alan Salop

Caesar Genaro, wealthy gentleman of Spain, had, aside from his strange devotion to diving and the sea, one passion the past. He delighted in recovering from sunken ships various and beautiful antiques to adorn the cabins of his boat, and his life was spent more in dreams than in reality. He lived in a fanciful world of his own, one of seventeenth century Spain with its chivalry and laces, graceful galleons and beautiful dark

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men. But all this Ben learned much later.

Ben first met Genaro on Haiti in the spring of 1950 where he, about to dive for sunken gold north of the island, had put in for supplies. He had a pleasant smile, and his teeth were very white as he said, "How do you do," in a very precise English. One was struck at once by the black hair worn long to the shoulder, fine eyes only faintly shifty, good nose,

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