You can't expect a landlubber to understand all the conditions of a life like this." But a new thought which was gradually forming in her brain made Kate reserve judgment.

Harrigan came back and placed a few more sticks of wood on the fire.
"I can't understand," said Kate, "how you could make a fire without a sign of a match." "That's simple," said McTee easily.

"When a man has traveled about as much as I have, he has to pick up all sorts of unusual ways of doing things.

The way we made that fire was to--" "The way _we_ made it ?" interjected Harrigan with bitter emphasis.
Kate frowned as she glanced from one to the other.

There was the same deep hostility in their eyes which she had noticed when they faced each other in the captain's cabin aboard the _Mary Rogers_.
"An' why were ye sittin' prayin' for fire with the gir-rl thremblin' and freezin' to death in yer ar-rms if ye knew so well how to be makin' one ?" "Hush--Dan," said Kate; for the fire of anger blew high.
McTee started.
"You know each other pretty well, eh ?" "Tut, tut!" said Harrigan airily.