There's some mystery, anyway.

Keep that to yourself," she said as Andrius and Vickers appeared from below.

"Don't show any sign--wait to see how things turn out." She turned away from him to greet the other two as unconcernedly as if there were nothing unusual in the situation, and Copplestone marvelled at her coolness.

He himself, not so well equipped with patience, was feverishly anxious to know how things would turn out, and when.

But the day went by and nothing happened, except that Captain Andrius was very polite to his guests and that the yacht, a particularly fast sailer, continued to make headway through the grey seas, sometimes in bare sight of land and sometimes out of it.