had a chance to board and examine us. Of course, we can avoid that scandal now. So the captain sent back word that he had positively identified and now holds Mr. Manling under arrest. He has taken upon himself the responsibility of handing Mr. Manling over to the police, and they will not, therefore, board the vessel till after all the other passengers are landed."
"And what have you determined to do with me, Mr. Dunneston?" the girl asked.
"I believe, Miss Varris, that we received no special supplementary instructions about you—in fact, there was no further mention of you at all. That 'wireless' which we have just heard was, I believe, the final confirmation that there would be no police examination till the passengers were landed. Really, a police examination added to quarantine and your beastly customs inquisition would be the last straw now, would it not?"
The whistle and the heavy passing signals of the great vessels in the Narrows changed to
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