But there was no "Dr.Claudius" there.

His face fell and his heart beat fast, for he had been so positively certain.

Poor Margaret! What would she do?
How foolish of Claudius not to telegraph the day he sailed! "You are quite sure there are no omissions here ?" asked the Duke of the bursar.
"Quite sure, sir," answered he.

"Wait a minute, though," he said, as the Duke dropped the list, "there was a passenger taken ashore at Queenstown very ill.

A tall man, I should say, though they carried him.