CAPTAIN ALDEN STANDS REVEALED Hardly had the trembling Arab salaamed and departed in terror of soul, knowing not what fearful events might be impending, when Bohannan appeared.

The smile on the Master's lips, the sternly calculating expression in his eyes, faded into something as near astonishment as this strange man ever felt, when the major exclaimed: "Well, faith now, what d'you think?
The most improbable thing you can imagine!" "What may that be, Major ?" "It's not what it may be, it's what it _is_ that's astonishing me.
We've got a stowaway aboard us!" "Stowaway?
Impossible!" "True, nevertheless.

Manderson has just now routed him out of the starboard storage-room, near the reserve petrol-tank." "Hm! Who is he ?" Bohannan shrugged stout shoulders.
"Don't know yet.

He's still dopy.

Just coming out of the effects of the lethalizing gas." "Ah, yes, yes, I see.