Wherever he is, and whatever happened to him, he made a complete change of linen and clothing before he quitted the yacht! That's a plain fact, Mr.Lindsey!" A fact it was--and one that made me think, however it affected the others.

It disposed, for instance, of any notion or theory of suicide.

A man doesn't change his clothes if he's going to drown himself.

And it looked as if this had been part of some premeditated plan: at the very least of it, it was a curious thing.
"You're sure of that ?" inquired Mr.Lindsey, eyeing the things that had been thrown aside.
"Dead sure of it!" said I."I couldn't be mistaken." "Did he bring a portmanteau or anything aboard with him, then ?" asked he.
"He didn't; but he could have kept clothes and linen and the like in these lockers," I pointed out, beginning to lift the lids.

"See here!--here's brushes and combs and the like.