In November 1933, after twelve unsuccessful years in America, he saw his parents sail for Barbados and was then seized by a desire to go himself; Abdullah told him he was already in Barbados and must walk as though he were, and though penniless and unemployed he received a letter from his brother Victor on 4 December with a $50 draft and a paid passage, was booked 3rd Class, was rebuked by Abdullah for it, and found at the dock on 6 December that a cancellation had put him in 1st Class on the Nerissa.