"See," she cried excitedly.

"I was not mistaken.
There _was_ something here." A creepy sensation ran up the man's spine and passed behind his ears.
At this spot the drowned Lascars were lying.

Like an inspiration came the knowledge that the cuttlefish, the dreaded octopus, abounds in the China Sea.
His face was livid when he turned to Iris.

"You are over-wrought by fatigue, Miss Deane," he said.

"What you saw was probably a seal;" he knew the ludicrous substitution would not be questioned.