Hughie and family get to know a youthful Japanese-Canadian who has come to Gibsons Landing to find his dad's old fishboat, appropriated amid World War Two when the West Coast Japanese were shamefully stripped of their possessions and dispatched inland as "adversary outsiders". They run head-on into settled in bias from a totally surprising quarter, old Colonel Spranklin, one of the Carmody family's best-adored companions. Finding the old fishboat and the push to get it water-borne again shape the activity of this moving two-section scene. Conclusion of two-part story.
