Alden rose, weakly enough, and followed him.

As the door opened and closed again, the engines hummed louder, then sank again to their dull murmur.

Bohannan remained with the doctor.
"Well, faith, can you beat that ?" exclaimed the major.

"There's an Ethiopian in the woodpile, sure enough.

Something strange, here, I'm thinking! Something damned strange here!" "Is there anything here that _isn't_ ?" asked Lombardo, with an odd laugh, as he turned back to the cot where lay the dying New Zealander.
Alone in his cabin with Captain Alden, the Master faced the insubordinate member of his crew with an expression of hard implacability.