It was easy enough for me to keep my eyes open." "It is too bad," said the captain, and then, listening for a moment, he said: "I truly believe that Maka is snoring, too, and as for that black fellow over there, I suspect that he sleeps all the time.

Miss Markham, you have been the only person awake." "Why shouldn't I be ?" said she.

"I am sure that a woman is just as good as a man for keeping watch." "If they should come," thought the captain, as he again sat in the dark, "I must not try to fight them in the passage.

That would have been my best chance, but now some of them might pick me off from behind.

No, I must fight them in this chamber.