Is there a rope of any kind to be had ?" "Only this curtain cord; it is not large, but strong." "That ought to do, if long enough; there must be a twenty-foot drop to the water.
Yes, splice the two together; let me have them." She shrank back from touching the inanimate figure, her face very pale in the dim light, yet it required the combined efforts of both to force the stiffening body through the port hole, and then lower it slowly to the surging water below.

The cord cut our hands cruelly, but it held, and the dead man sank beneath the surface, and was swept swiftly astern, into the black depths.

We could distinguish footsteps on the deck above, but these were regular and undisturbed--the slow promenade from rail to rail of the officer on watch.

Clearly nothing had been heard, or seen, to awaken suspicion.

I turned back, as the released body vanished, to look into her face, which was scarcely visible.
"If you should be questioned tomorrow you had best know nothing," I said gravely.