That is what I came on deck to tell you." "But Sanchez! You saw nothing of him ?" "No; but there was certainly movement in his room after the man Gunsaules came out.

I went over to the door and listened, but there was no way for me to lock him in.

Surely it must have been him moving, as he was alone there." I stood silent, my eyes first on the forward deck, and then sweeping about the horizon.

The view by then was very narrow, the gathering clouds of mist so dense as to obscure everything, leaving a mere gray trail of sea revealed, scarcely a hundred yards in extent in any direction.

I hardly perceived even this as my thought centered on this new peril.