I don't dare think what it means.

But if my guess is right, then the _Heron_ is a lot nearer hell than even you and I expected.

Look, there goes Fritz Klopp, the first assistant engineer.
I'll wager he's got another complaint about the heat in the fireroom." They watched Klopp go into the captain's cabin, waited a moment, and then the door flew open and Klopp sprang out and fled aft like a man pursued.

Henshaw came to the open door and peered after the engineer and laughed silently.
McTee muttered: "That's the way the devil laughs when he watches the damned souls pass by." Here Henshaw glanced up and saw them watching him from the bridge.

His face altered suddenly to a malevolence so terrible that both the men stepped back.