Somebody who came from this room must have done it." "Impossible!" "Then where did he come from ?" The engineer and his assistant looked at each other, and the former began to swear.
"What do you think of it, Joe ?" he asked.
"Think you made a mistake, Bill; but his story won't go.

Nobody'll take any stock in it." Frank was angry.

It was something unusual for his word to be doubted, and he felt like expressing his feelings decidedly.
He was saved the trouble.

The grimy stoker who had witnessed the struggle and the fall appeared in the door of the engine-room.

He saw Frank and cried: "Hello, you! So you're all right?
Wonder you wasn't killed.