"Odd! Very, very odd! That shows that there's still some extraordinary mystery about this which we haven't even guessed at.

Well, now, another question--you got the idea that some one else was aboard the yacht ?" "Some one other than Andrius--in authority--yes!" answered Vickers.

"We certainly thought that." "Did you think it was the man we know as the Squire ?" asked Sir Cresswell.
"We had a notion that he might be there," replied Vickers, with a glance at Copplestone.

"Especially after what happened to Chatfield.

Of course, we never saw him, or heard his voice, or saw a sign of him.