 He goes to Sally's brothel to take back a set of expensive pearls he gave her, but Sally refuses and reveals herself to have smuggled herself into the country from Molokai through a contraband jute shipment and is thus infected with leprosy, thus likely infecting Dan as well.In rage, he kills Sally and attempts to flee to Mexico on a motorboat (the "S.S. Defiance"), but rough weather sends him off course and he crashes into a rocky island.His dead body is seen among the wreckage.